Tom Hanks and Robin Wright Wore Girdles to Play Teens in ‘Here’ [Video]

To play teenagers in their new movie Here, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright relied on movie magic — and some close-fitting undergarments.

The film, which reunites the former Forrest Gump costars with director Robert Zemeckis, follows Richard (Hanks) and Margaret Young (Wright) over the course of several years as they fall in love, get married and have a family together. 

For the scenes when Hanks, 68, and Wright, 58, portrayed the younger versions of Richard and Margaret, Wright shared exactly how A.I. technology de-aged them in a new interview with The New York Times.

“It’s literally data they derived from interviews Tom and I did when we were 18, 19, 21; still photographs; stuff that is online. They deposit it into this machine, and they made us up to look 17,” she said.

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