Josh Baskin: Last News

Robert De Niro has confirmed the long-standing rumour that he was going to play the lead role in the film Big.

two-time Oscar-nominated film, but his youthful auburn locks faded to gray as the years passed.Now, he’s nearly two decades older than Tom Hanks was when the Penny Marshall-directed movie arrived in theaters. In the hit movie, the young Josh Baskin went to a fortune-telling machine and wished to be made big.The next morning the character woke up in the body of an adult – which was played by Tom Hanks.Hanks prepared for the role by watching videotapes of Moscow performing all of his scenes in the film with the other actors.The “Forrest Gump” star also studied Moscow’s body movements while he was playing with his friends in the park.Hanks received an Oscar nomination for his performance.“He kind of took all the quirky things about being a kid — those weird, awkward things — and [tuned] them up and had them live in him,” Moscow shared with People in 2024.The television personality who was only 13 years old when the film debuted added that Hanks was “not pretentious” and would often come to work in a backpack and take the subway.“He was a big kid.

On Monday, Robert De Niro Zoomed into The Tonight Show, where he was grilled by Jimmy Fallon, regarding a number of interesting “myths” that surround his career.

Tom Hanks' beloved film almost looked a bit different.The actor starred in the 1988 fantasy film. But as former co-star Elizabeth Perkins revealed this week, there was another actor who originally landed the role of Josh Baskin.

Elizabeth Perkins is opening up about co-starring with Tom Hanks in the 1988 film, Big.