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CNBC
showed the
TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO
episode featuring Colin Hanks on Saturday 24 March:
Jay:
My next guest is a talented young actor who stars on the alien
drama, ROSWELL,
on the WB. He's also starring in the feature film GET
OVER IT
which can be seen in a theatre near that guy (you). Please welcome
Colin Hanks!
Colin:
(to Kevin Eubanks) Can I just say that that was one of the most
impressive guitar solos I've ever seen? Amazing guitar
solo.
Jay:
Oh, yeah?
Colin:
Yeah, I just had to say that right away.
Jay:
Do you play guitar?
Colin:
I play the bass guitar, so, but, I mean, any solo of that calibre
is definitely due praise.
Kevin:
Oh, thanks, man.
Jay:
Oh. You'll be on again, young man. I think you're
doing quite well in the show business thing.
Colin:
Thank you. Thank you.
Jay:
I was talking to her [Sigourney Weaver] about the alien thing,
you do another, like, alien...thing...
Colin:
Yeah, another alien themed programme.
Jay:
Are you an alien person? Do you believe in it? Do
you hear from, like, people that want to commune with you?
Colin:
I'll believe it...until someone disproves it. That sort
of thing, you know, it's like no one's said that they definitely
don't exist, no one's said that they actually do exist.
So I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt that they do,
until someone says "Look, they...really don't exist."
And then I'll say "All right, well, you're the wiser."
Jay:
That's fine, and just put it to bed at that point.
Colin:
Just put it to bed at that point, yeah.
Jay:
I mean are you afraid of any of those kind - do you have any
fears?
Colin:
I'm deathly afraid of spiders. Arachnophobia is--
Jay:
Spiders, now they proved those are real.
Colin:
(laughs) Those are definitely real, those are definitely real.
I've had some horror stories, that just, make me just, absolutely
- I see one and I will jump back ten feet.
Jay:
Really? So if you're at a girl's apartment - "Colin,
there's a spider in the tub", you just run.
Colin:
I run. My girlfriend actually has the job of getting rid
of the spiders over me.
Jay:
Really?
Colin:
I won't do it. When I was in fifth grade, the fifth grade
class where I went to school, had a pet tarantula. And
there was sort of this rule that if you wanted to graduate fifth
grade, you had to let the tarantula walk over your hand, or
you had to pet the tarantula. I said, "Look, I'm
not doing that. If I don't graduate fifth grade that's
fine, cos I'm not gonna touch the spider," but when the
tarantula had shed, when a tarantula sheds, it almost looks
like there's another spider.
Jay:
Well, at least that's safe.
Colin:
Literally, and it's intact, and I said "Well, I'm not going
to touch the actual live tarantula, but I'll touch the other
one," so they put it down on the table, and for about five
minutes I'm getting ready to touch it, and right when I'm about
to touch it, my friend Dean blows on it, and it moves!
And I jumped out, and I ran out of the classroom, screaming,
crying, "Dean, that was not funny, man! I thought
it was dead! It started moving and I thought it was alive!"
From that point on, no, I will not even go close to spiders.
Jay:
Wow, so you haven't been to school since fifth grade.
Colin:
(laughs) No, never graduated.
Jay:
Maybe you should go to one of those arachnophobia schools or
something, you know, they put it on your face...
Colin:
I know, well, you know I watch that on Maury every now
and again, and I'm thinking "should I do it?"
No, maybe I'll just apply to college.
Jay:
Sure, sure, you have to kill spiders. That's the manly
thing, because you know women have all these other things, that's
the only thing left for us guys.
Colin:
I'll pass, I'll pass. No, no, that's ok. Thanks
for the advice, though.
Jay:
OK, Well, I know you from the WB, but I guess, now, your first
big break was your dad's film - course your dad Tom Hanks -
THAT
THING YOU DO,
which I liked, but I don't remember you in the film.
Colin:
That's because I wasn't...really...in it. Really. It's
funny because my dad did a really cool thing, he put me in the
credits at the very end of the film, I'm known as "male
page", and I had two scenes, and he wrote this movie, so
I had two scenes with no dialogue. I was escorting Liv
Tyler up the stairs to the Hollywood Television Showcase, and
in the other scene I was escorting her to her seat. And
the scene with the seat was the one, was a little bit longer
where I'm looking at her and, "Yeah, she looks cute,"
and "OK, that was it" and that was sort of like my
big scene. Well, my big scene got cut, and now it's just
the scene of me just walking up the stairs. And that's
it.
Jay:
We have the scene, here's is your acting debut?
Colin:
My acting debut.
[Clip
from THAT
THING YOU DO]
Jay:
I tell ya, you know, I tell ya...
Colin:
It's about five seconds. About five seconds...
Jay:
For that brief moment, I actually felt you were walking up those
stairs.
Colin:
I was walking up those stairs, I was escorting her to the Hollywood
Television Showcase. And that's like you know, "He was
in his dad's movie, THAT
THING YOU DO,
I was in it for five seconds! That's not anything you
should mention.
Jay:
No, that's all right.
Colin:
But no, but I dig that you mentioned it, so now that we can
finally clear it...
Jay:
No, if I can humiliate and degrade you with it, that's why I'm
here.
Colin:
Please, by all means!
Jay:
Now tell us about GET
OVER IT.
Colin:
GET
OVER IT,
uh, the title sort of says it all, it's about this guy who's
been dumped by his girlfriend, and he thinks it's, was, you
know, it was meant to be, and they were supposed to live together
happily ever after, and she dumps him and starts dating someone
else, and he goes to great lengths to win her back, and actually
joins the cast of a musical Shakespeare, a musical performance
of a Shakespeare play that is horrendous.
Jay:
To try to win her back.
Colin:
To try to win her back, and of course he doesn't win her back,
and ends up falling in love with my kid sister.
Jay:
Well, here, let's take a look. We have a scene, here it is.
Now what's happening here?
Colin:
This is me, and our buddy Dennis, played by Sisqo, and Ben Foster,
Ben Foster's the guy that gets dumped, so we're going to take
him out for a good
night on the town.
[Clip
from GET
OVER IT]
Colin:
Cos he wants to see IDs. "Show me your ID or I'll
blow your head off."
Jay:
I like the gun pulls a gun in a strip club.
Colin:
Yeah, "Let's see some IDs".
Jay:
Now have you ever been dumped? Have you been through that
whole -
Colin:
I've been dumped, yeah, but not anything too bad, I've had my
heart broken, yeah, but nothing so bad that...
Jay:
Wait, we have to pause for an "awwww". Did you ever
get this "but we can be friends."
Colin:
Oh, I got, yeah, I got tons of...
Jay:
Con! Con!
Colin:
Tons of "friends" stuff.
Jay:
And do you remain friends, or do you just wanna...
Colin:
No, actually, I'm actually very good at actually remaining friends,
and trying to keep in contact...
Jay:
You try to keep in contact, but they're busy having sex with
that other guy.
Colin
laughs.
Jay:
"Hi, I'd like to talk to my friend now, but I'm having
sex with Larry."
Colin:
Yeah, exactly.
Jay:
It's very hard. But you got an "awww" out of
it, and that's important.
Colin:
I got an "awww" and I'll definitely take an "awww".
Jay:
It's always good to get one of those...when you've been dumped.
Jay:
Well, terrific, the film is called GET
OVER IT
and it's playing in a theatre near you. Colin, thank you,
nice to meet you. Colin Hanks everybody! BACK
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