Tom Hanks has won two Oscars for “Forrest Gump” and “Philadelphia” and has been nominated for three more — but can he tackle a movie script written by children?
That was the challenge when Jimmy Fallon asked the acclaimed actor to read out scenes from his new Cold War thriller directed by Steven Spielberg on Thursday’s “Tonight Show.”
“The scenes are not from the actual movie,” Fallon explained. “They were all written by elementary school kids and we gave them no direction — just the title ‘Bridge of Spies.’”
In the first script, a man played by Fallon asked Hanks’ character, “what is this?” He replied: “What does it look like? Dummy. It’s a bridge of spies. Go away. We’re spying.”
Unfortunately, the bridge was “too full of spies already. There’s no room for anymore.”
The next script had a more romantic tone as Joe and Margaret marvel over “the new bridge of spies” that was being “built somewhere in China or something, they are gonna call it the bridge of spies because they are finding spies and taping them together to make a bridge.
“They didn’t have enough wood so they are using spies.”
In the end, the pair give up on finding the bridge and go eat cake for dinner instead.
The real “Bridge of Spies,” reuniting the power pedigree of Spielberg and Hanks telling the story of a 1962 U2 spy plane incident, hits theaters Friday.
“The Tonight Show” airs at 11:35 p.m. on NBC.