The two first met while making the 1994 movie “Forrest Gump.”
They played childhood best friends, Forrest and Jenny, in the Academy Award-winning film.
The two actors picked up on their natural chemistry during the audition stage.
“Tom and I just had a great connection,” she said.
That connection didn’t fade when it was time to film.
No, hysterically funny."
“I laughed so hard I peed in my costume,” she said.
“He was doing all the running sequences during lunch break,” she said.
“We all know each other so well,” Hanks toldPeopleahead of the movie’s release.
“Working with people you know and you’re compatible with, there’s nothing like that.
We could put our heads together and know exactly what we wanted to try different.”
The feeling is mutual for Wright.
“The whole band got back together,” she said.
“It was incredible, reuniting 30 years later, it was like no time had passed.
There was nothing awkward about it.”
