Tom Hanks reveals he was unsure of all the bus bench scenes in his 1994 classic Forrest Gump

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Nearly three decades after his Oscar-winning turn in Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks reveals he wasn't entirely sure about the now-iconic bus bench scenes.The film was adapted from the then little-known novel of the same name by Winston Groom, which became both the highest-grossing movie of 1994 and it also won Best Picture at the Oscars, while Hanks won his second Best Actor Oscar in a row, after winning for Philadelphia.Hanks was promoting his new film Elvis in an interview with CinemaBlend, when he admitted that he didn't think anyone would be interested in the bus bench scenes of Forrest Gump.

Unsure:Nearly three decades after his Oscar-winning turn in Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks reveals he wasn't entirely sure about the now-iconic bus bench scenesThe bus bench scenes anchored the movie, with Hanks' title character regaling strangers with various tales throughout his incredible life.Still, he never quite grasped the weight of these scenes, and said he wasn't sure how they'd even be used in the movie. 'I will tell you, in Forrest Gump, all the stuff that we shot on the park bench in Savannah, Georgia, we were just shooting fodder for a possible narrative piece of it,' Hanks admitted.

Bus scenes:Still, he never quite grasped the weight of these scenes, and said he wasn't sure how they'd even be used in the movie'And I said to Bob [Zemeckis], "Is anyone going to care about this nut sitting on a [bench]?

What is this? No one knows what’s in this [box] I mean,"' Hanks added.'We ended up shooting, it was probably like, you know, 13 pages of dialogue that we had to shoot in a day and a half,' Hanks admitted.'It was written on cue cards, [and] I didn’t need the cue cards after a while because you get into it,' Hanks said, before.