Peter Scolari, who co-starred on the sitcom Bosom Buddies with a pre-fame Hanks from 1980 to 1982, played Troy Chesterfield, the host of The Hollywood Television Showcase. THE FILM FEATURED A MINI BOSOM BUDDIES REUNION. "I thought, 'She's a very attractive lady, and I hope she's going to be nice to me.'" 12. "I was so tired by then I didn't even know it was my wife," Hanks said. He was so tired one morning that he didn't even notice his wife, Rita Wilson (who played a cocktail waitress in the film), was on the set. HANKS WORKED LONG HOURS ON HIS DIRECTORIAL DEBUT. The Hollywood Television Showcase scene was shot on Stage 33, Bob Barker Studio, at CBS Television City in Hollywood. Embry once said he believed the "T" stood for Tobias. THE BASS PLAYER’S NAME IS NEVER MENTIONED.Įthan Embry was credited as T.B. Hanks also remarked that Forrest Gump used actual '60s music to full effect already, and recently. The rights to even obscure B-sides were expensive, so Hanks and some of his collaborators composed new music for the movie. After she finished her audition, Hanks said, "She's got it! That girl is going to be somebody." In her script, Hanks wrote, “No matter what, I will always claim to have discovered you.” 8. The future Oscar winner played the role of Tina in That Thing You Do!, which was only her second credited on-screen role. 7. HANKS KNEW CHARLIZE THERON WAS GOING TO BE FAMOUS AFTER SHE AUDITIONED. Schaech revealed some of the names written in his character’s notebook in a series of YouTube videos: Mom’s Hot Dish (A Zahn creation), The Lords of Erie, Jimmy in This and Jimmy in That, The Hanks, and Faye’s Addiction were some of the more interesting ones. THERE WERE PLENTY OF OTHER POTENTIAL BAND NAMES. Schaech burned his lip putting it against an old microphone during rehearsals. It was Schaech’s first time playing guitar, and Everett Scott’s first attempt at playing drums. Player) and Johnathon Schaech (Jimmy Mattingly) spent a month learning all of the notes to all of The Wonders’s tunes, even though they weren’t actually the ones playing them. THE ACTORS ACTUALLY LEARNED HOW TO PLAY THEIR INSTRUMENTS.Įverett Scott, Steve Zahn (Lenny Haise), Ethan Embry (T.B. Before some takes, Hanks would remind Everett Scott, "Don't do it like me!" The crew annoyed Guy Patterson with the moniker “ Tom Junior.” Which all seems rather serendipitous: Everett Scott married his girlfriend a year after That Thing You Do! was released, and a few years after they went on their first date. Hanks changed his mind and gave the young lookalike his first film role after Hanks’s wife, Rita Wilson, said Everett Scott was cute. TOM EVERETT SCOTT ALMOST DIDN’T GET THE PART BECAUSE HE LOOKED TOO MUCH LIKE HANKS. The producer also pointed out that Viola was paid for his services. The Candy Butchers singer didn’t appreciate being listed after the long cast and production credits- including one horse-as simply supplying “Additional Vocals.” A producer responded by saying that the film wanted to create a mythology about the band The Wonders, as if they were real, something which would be harder to do if Viola’s credit was listed more prominently. MIKE VIOLA WAS UPSET OVER THE LACK OF CREDIT GIVEN FOR SINGING THE SONG. The track was later re-recorded in California. In the demo that won, singer Mike Viola was hungover. At the time, Adam Schlesinger was in the band Ivy and was just starting to form Fountains of Wayne when he entered Hanks and the producers’ contest to write a “faux-Beatles” tune called “That Thing You Do.” Schlesinger’s version was picked out of 300 entries.
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