Tom Hanks Reunites With Robin Wright For New ‘Here’ Movie

Exactly 30 years after its release forrest gump, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright they are together again—with the director Robert Zemeckis — for Herea single-shot film that takes place entirely in one room and follows several generations of families.

Hanks and Wright play a couple in the projectas their relationship is tracked over the years. At the AFI Fest premiere in Los Angeles on Friday, Hanks said that working together now is “the same process” as it was in the ’90s.

“We had the same conversation over and over; we met from time to time. I will say that the very first day when we first sat down with our scripts to start fleshing them out, it was kind of like, “Can you believe this? How did that happen?'” Hanks said The Hollywood Reporter of the reunion with Wright. “But that was then, this is now, and we know better, so we just manage with ease, the luxury of knowing each other backwards and forwards and great, great trust and affection.”

The actor added that when he first signed on, he didn’t know Wright would be his co-star; Zemeckis later began championing the idea, and “I said, ‘Well, wouldn’t that be great.’ Are we available then? Can it work? All the other stuff happens,” Hanks continued. “But we have a thing when it comes to working together, ‘Yes, of course,’ that’s the only thing you say.”

Zemeckis said he didn’t have a grand plan to forrest gump reunion from the start, but was “very, very lucky” that both stars said yes. To follow the actors through the decades of the story, the team worked with AI studio Metaphysic on a tool called Metaphysic Live, which created face swaps and anti-aging effects on top of the actors’ real-time performances.

“It was essential to tell the story — we couldn’t have made the movie five years ago, so it was very, very fortunate that this tool arrived just when we needed it,” Zemeckis said, explaining that it is essentially ” digital makeup”. It also allowed the cast to look 20 or 30 years younger while shooting the scene — instead of waiting for visual effects to be added later — as the director added, “They look at it and say, “Oh, I need to be a little faster, I need to move a little faster, I need to raise my voice a little. It was important for them to see him.”

Here hits theaters November 1st.