"The same was true when I played Forrest Gump, who loved Jenny. The way my character felt about his lover is the way I feel about mine," he said. "I was able to construct a number of things in Philadelphia because of my relationship with her. WATCH: The trailer for Hanks' 1995 classic Forrest Gump The actor credited his wife for those achievements, telling Oprah Winfrey in 2001 that his performances wouldn't have been the same without Wilson by his side. Their second son, Truman, arrived in 1995, after Hanks won two consecutive Oscars for Best Actor for Philadelphia in 1993 and Forrest Gump in 1994. The pair welcomed their first child together, a son named Chester, in 1990 and shared the big screen again in 1993 when they starred as siblings in Sleepless in Seattle. Hank and Wilson became a Hollywood golden couple and remained together even as his star rose, becoming one of the most popular leading men of the 1990s. Not that marriage doesn't come close to being hell in a handbasket sometimes, but we both know that no matter what, we'll be with each other and we'll get through it." The two actors have been together since the mid-1980s. "In real life, our connection is as concrete as me sitting here. "I won't deny that providence was part of us finding each other, but our relationship isn't magic, the way it's shown in movies," he once told Oprah Winfrey of their union. "No matter what, we'll be with each other – and we'll get through it." Having been through the heartache of one failed marriage already, Hanks was adamant things would be better with Wilson and knew that would "require some change" from him. "Literally, a wave of– if love is a feeling, or a cellular thing that happens to your body, it went through me, and that's pretty much who he is, and how he's been." "He looked at me and he said, 'You know, I just want you to know, that you never have to change anything about who you are in order to be with me'," she said in 2012. READ MORE: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr fell in love over a crab The couple at their wedding reception. "I'm a lucky man," Hanks joked to E! News in 2016, "she could've done better."īut Wilson knew she'd found 'The One', once recalling a special moment between them while waiting for a traffic light to change on a corner in New York City. Hanks's divorce from Lewes was finalised the following year and in 1988 he and Wilson tied the knot, the actress donning a unique short wedding dress for the occasion. It's understood he and Lewes separated around that time, as Hanks asked Wilson out not long after and they later took their relationship public in 1986. The pair hit it off while filming Volunteer: "Wilson and I just looked at each other and – kaboing – that was that." (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) I asked Wilson if it was the real thing for her, and it just couldn't be denied," Hanks told GQ of the spark between them. "Wilson and I just looked at each other and – kaboing – that was that. When she and Hanks shared the screen again in the 1985 film Volunteers, the chemistry between them was undeniable and romance blossomed soon after. "We just got along instantly," Wilson told Kelly Clarkson in 2020 of their first meeting. When Wilson walked onto the set of Bosom Buddies in 1981, Hanks felt a connection instantly but they kept things strictly platonic as he was still very much a married man. READ MORE: Elvis courted Priscilla Presley for years, but parenthood changed them I was not really ready to take on those responsibilities." Hanks (left) and Peter Scolari in the TV series Bosom Buddies. "I was 23 and my son Colin was already two when I married for the first time. I was just too young and insecure for marriage," Hanks said of his first marriage in 2013. "A broken marriage meant I was sentencing my own kids to the sort of feelings I had at their age. They shared a son, Colin, born in 1977, and a daughter, Elizabeth, born in 1982, but the marriage didn't last and Hanks struggled with that, having seen his own parents divorce. The pair had tied the knot in 1978, before Hanks' acting career took off. He was married to his college sweetheart, actress Samantha Lewes, at the time.
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