Benedict Cumberbatch reads a 17-year-old Tom Hanks' letter
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2021
- In 1974, five years after directing the widely adored Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American filmmaker George Roy Hill received the Academy Award for Best Directing for his work on The Sting, a heist film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford which in total won seven Oscars. Later that year, as the dust settled, Hill received an enthusiastic letter from a 17-year-old aspiring actor keen to break into Hollywood. His name was Thomas Hanks...
Benedict Cumberbatch read this letter at Letters Live in the Freemason's Hall, London. - Розваги
I really hope that Tom Hanks fulfilled his dreams and calls Robert Redford "Bob" every chance he gets.
Judging by his body language and the way he delivers every words, he's making a Tom Hanks impression.
The American accent is a bit more of a giveaway.
Exactly.
I think he has worked with Tom Hanks before, so he has an idea of his mannerisms.
You could tell how hard Benedict was trying NOT to slip into his British pronunciation pattern. Just saw him "The Courier." Great film!
Especially with that "schedule" pronunciation slip.
Until he said “shedule” you would have sworn Benedict could be an American.
I swear I could just watch and listen to him reading anything for hours.
Love him!
I noticed as well.
Me too!
Penguins!
ua-cam.com/video/HCNIad87yek/v-deo.html here you go hahaha
He was drifting between different American accents. If I didn’t know him, I’d think he had a slight speech impediment.
-An American
So, how was he discovered? You can see that sense of self-deprecating humor in his letter. What is amazing to me is that Mr. Hill saved that letter. He could never know that one day the young Tom Hanks would become the biggest star in Hollywood, and a real national treasure.
I don't know about that. :) You can just tell from the letter that the kid has a lot of brass and gumption. If he makes it at all, he'll make it big. :)
likely an assistant saved it as it probably never even reached the eyes of Mr. Hill.
I very much doubt that this, or any other letter I've heard read on Letters Live, is real. They remind me of the letters page in Viz magazine, like the one that read something along the lines of, _"Last week I sent my son to the shop to buy a loaf of bread and a packet of biscuits. Imagine my surprise when he returned with a boaf of lread and a backet of piscuits!"_
He was "discovered" by working a lot in theater behind the scenes. He did years of bit parts in stage plays in lower market areas while his main job was being some form of theater production assistant. Got to the point after enough years he was the lead while also being a production assistant. Then he moved to a larger market and started again. Production assistant, bit parts in NYC. He was always a duel hire. Production assistant for a theater that could fill in for a walk-on one to two line parts. When he finally started getting parts outside of theater he was a duel hire the other way around. Low budget directors got a lead actor who could carry part of the production side of things. Basically Tom spent his early career being anything he could that got him on the stage and that gave him a large enough skillset after years of doing it that people wanted to hire him even if he wasn't the best actor to slot into a role. Then he got better at acting, good enough people wanted to hire him just for that.
@@nagualdesign Some I know are letters because I have seen the source. Others I know are not real letter because I have also seen their source. The shame is that it is hard to trust any that I dont already know because I have seen them slip in bits.
Tom Hanks was always a decent human. What a legend.
Not dead yet.
Yeah!! Man he is fit and find... Watch his latest Finch
You have no idea what the man is like in real life. Ask his kids.
Hmm, you haven't a clue!
Not many people do a Tom Hanks impression, and while Benny's here occasionally sounded a little more like Jay Leno, I respect, applaud, and as an American, I appreciate the effort.
Also, about Hanks, you KNOW he would still write this same letter today, written on a vintage typewriter.
Ooh Benny, you tripped up on “schedule.”
and just a teeny bit on "Robert"...
😂 You just have to love Tom’s hutzpah! Thanks Benedict 🙏🏽
With that kind of attitude, he just might make it.
😂👍🏽
Yes, maybe we’ll see him in a film one day.
I like how Benedict really sells the youthful puppy like enthusiasm young 17 year old Tom had. His voice even sounds like a teenager’s!
Nice to know the years and fame hasn’t changed Tom Hanks. Still love the fact that he takes pictures with passed out people so that they wake up the next day with a picture of themselves with Tom Hanks and no recollection of how they got it
So , Tom Hanks life is literally a dream come true .
I knew Tom Hanks had great talent and heart. Now i see he had chutzpah too!
It shows that if you try to get heard and then seen, great things can happen to you, I like Benedict's American impression of Tom Hanks. Just shows keep aiming, keep speaking out, someone will notice
When someone calls Robert, Bob, no one bats an eye, as soon as someone calls a penguin, penguing everyone flips out.
It's clear that for this kid the sky is the limit.... however I am sure he actually found a plane to take him there!!
What.. do you mean? Are you implying Tom Hanks is a cr🅰️¢kh€🅰️d or something? 🤔 Wtf.
You're joking... right?? 🤔
@@Meladjusted not at all...Tom hanks is a great actor!
@@Meladjusted well actually I put a "not".. when I didn't mean to...fixed it.. Actually I think Tom Hanks is a great actor!!
Are you trying to "Sully" his reputation?
Thanks God for gave us Tom Hanks🙏🏻💞
Love Tom Hanks even more now ❤
😊 I never get tired of seeing this pop up on my timeline. I just love the way Benedict "performs" this letter! He's great at comedy. Oh how I wish he would do a romantic comedy! ♥
you mean one of those formulaic boy/boy meets boy/girl, they have problems, they sort them out things?
He is a pretty down to earth guy, isn't he? Don't know about the Porsche, though.
Mr. Cumberbach sendo incrível e engraçado.
Luv this!
Even at 17, Tom Hanks sounds like Tom!
Amazing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️
Mr Benedict you are something beautiful ❤️ too
This is a really good one, but I can't help but wonder how it would sound/look with Hanks himself reading it.
It would be glorious! 😍
He's got Hank's accent and intonacion pretty well. His American accent was very poor in 12 Years a Slave. He has developed!
Playing Doctor Stephen Strange helps, too. :)
Always been a big tom hanks fan
That is awesome.
Hanks needed to be in the audience with the camera lovingly on his face the whole time
Bango!
Our Ben is in shape as always
Let's work out the details of my discovery 👌
It had to be him! ♥
"Get this kid in here"
That kid will go places...
Brilliant 🤣
... perfect ! only... schedule vs shedule thats the give away... worked with a Brit ..
damn!!!
Some British people say 'skedule' do it's not like he's never heard it.
Someone discovered him! Lol
Sounds like the grinch 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bob...
I have loved in my butch lesbians kind of way Tom Hanks since Bosum Buddies.I really love that Tom is his real name.Sincerly yours the out empath poet Val.
Any letter read by you dear.
.....and thus begins the birth of
David S Pumpkins.......🎃🎃🎃
Would have been better if Tom Hanks had read it...also would have fit the conditions in that the Tom Hanks of then and now are two different people.
🤣🤣👏👏
Hilarious 🤣
😲
people breaking their legs and others being offered to do their work... A bit the case where I am working...! 😅
Do we know what happened to this "Hanx" kid"?
Lol
If Tom Hanks was british he could be the one reading that letter
Hilarious.
I wonder whatever happened to Thomas J. Hanks? Did he become a star?
He messed up the American accent when he said "shed-yool", instead of "sked-yool". Sheer perfection, otherwise. 😊
Not all Brits say “Shed-yool” though.
Because of course Tom Hanks did.
"I can't be held responsilbe for creating the conditions in where you all ate each other"
"All I did was create those conditions"
"You're the ones who ate each other"
OMG SO FUNNY
Loved it! BUT... SKEDJUAL, NOT SHEEDULE. Our Tom is an Ameeeerican...
Whatever happened to that guy?
Interesting. The other screenwriter of The Sting is a woman called Julia Phillips who lost all her money and resorted to writing a gossip memoir about Hollywood called "you'll never eat lunch in this town again". I tried reading it recently but just found it so boring (no interesting gossip at all and many of the celebs she mentions weren't that famous anyway) and couldn't deal with her drug addiction and her relaying of that. She would talk about how she'd get up, have some cocaine, then take a valium to come down as it made her too hyper, then drank some wine, then this, then that and that was her daily life. She was also on a concoction of drugs when accepting her Oscar's award. Then she reveals a great deal of people in the film industry are all doing this (no surprises there). These Hollywood people are so empty and shallow. I couldn't imagine living a life like that. Your whole day is focused on managing your drug intake, yet amongst that, they somehow manage to be creative from time to time to write or appear in a film.
Tomas J Hanks won't that make him Tom Hanks
Lol what if it was really written by him 😉🤣
His full name is Thomas J Hanks actually.
Yeah, that's kinda the point. It was.
Yeah if it was written by him, then if benedict cumberbatch read it out and they recorded it, and it got put on youtube, then we would be here
@@stevecarter8810 what a crazy coincidence ;)
BC yopur dog movie is God awful.
Bachelor Party was released 3 months after Police Academy and Steve Guttenberg was getting all the attention for his performance.
I saw Bachelor shortly after Police Academy thought Tom was the better actor and definitely had Oscar ability.
Bosom Buddies was his first break.
I'm always impressed how British and Australian actors can sound Canadian and American
Michael Winslow does a good Australian accent and Robert Mitchum was very good portraying an Australian in the 1960 film The Sundowners.
Benedict and Tom Hiddleston are very good at doing voice impersonations.