Sometimes you can't tell the difference between the guy in the suit and the digital person on the screen. And then through the process and the post-production process, the animators and the visual effects artists really copied or used his movements, his performance the whole way, so it really does feel like Caleb. Seeing Caleb in this mo-cap suit, on these stilt-like things that were built for him, every day, you thought you were looking at a robot. He and Miguel really planned it out in terms of him learning humanity and becoming human. He embodied this role and had a whole trajectory. All the books that he supposedly consumed as a robot in the film, he read himself. He does an incredible amount of research and reads so many books. I think we all just felt like there was something so special and so interesting that Caleb brought to the part. We had the two finalists reading with Tom. You weren't always sure what you were going to get. LEVINE: Caleb was, from the audition process, someone who was just so unique, and quite frankly a bit of a wild card. He's not even on-screen, but the evolution of Jeff across the film is so affecting due to the changes Caleb brings to the character. RELATED: Tom Hanks Believes Marvel Cinematic Universe Will Save TheatersĬaleb Landry Jones plays off Hanks incredibly well, in a performance that's largely motion-capture. So we thought on par, this had many, many, many elements that had the making for a potentially hip movie and was extremely well written. The script had a lot of humor in it as well, and that was something we were attracted to. They're not just put there to be put there. That is a pretty damn interesting theme, and then it's wrapped up in a lot of these action sequences that are organic and holistic. What we thought was so interesting was maybe he couldn't love humanity, but through loving a robot, he finds his humanity. And through that adventure, he finds healing for himself. Thematically, he was obviously very cloistered, very afraid of what was in the world that could hurt him or destroy him. At its core, you had this character Finch, who is very industrious, very bright. Of course, we could envision Tom Hanks, but we could only pray that we would get Tom Hanks. JACK RAPKE: At the heart of is this wonderful character. I think the idea of Tom, for his body of work, to the world in this last year, it's a pretty nice confluence of events surrounding an actor who seems almost singular in his standing. It's really funny and real, even though sometimes Tom is acting with a CG character. I think that gives an interesting scope to the movie. Miguel feels equally comfortable in small intimate moments as he does in these massive world creation moments. Miguel was able to create a world both big and small for him that I think he felt very comfortable living in. The answer came back pretty quickly that he was captivated by the material and by Miguel's vision. I think what winds up happening is you cross your fingers and everything and hope that he wants to do it. You're sort of one and done when you have the idea of saying, "Well, it should be Tom Hanks, and then who else?" It's a pretty high drive you feel when you're giving it to Tom because there's no real second choice. developed the screenplay with the writers for quite some time and it was submitted to Jackie Levine, Jack Rapke, Robert Zemeckis, and myself. With him particularly as an avatar of our journey of isolation, back to humanity, what a wonderful tour guide for that. KEVIN MISHER: There's only one of Tom Hanks. We immediately thought about him for this role, and obviously have a connection to him. Tom is just one of the greatest living actors alive. It was about survival, which obviously, we saw so much of in Castaway, but it was also about taking care of this dog, and teaching this robot how to be a man and how to be a person and the backstory of his own life, and growing up pretty lonely and living a lonely existence. There are some dark moments in this part, and of course, we knew that it would be great to see him do that and to see him do that in a way that maybe you hadn't seen him do before.
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