Completely stoned, Sean Hayes convinced a friend who had just bought a new Sony DVD player that it was voice-activated. The friend earnestly said 'Cast Away' into the machine — twice — while Hayes suffocated with laughter behind him.
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Sean sets up his question with ostentatious self-deprecation, and it turns out to be the episode's most quotable revelation: the volleyball was absolutely named after Rita Wilson, and Tom and Rita are approaching 34 years of marriage. Bill Broyles wrote the name in as a tribute. The film took six years from the first conversation between Hanks and Broyles to cameras rolling. Then Sean pivots to one of the episode's funniest stories: working on Will & Grace, he and a colleague got extremely high and decided to watch the Cast Away plane crash sequence on DVD. The friend had a brand-new Sony setup and couldn't get it to work. Sean, completely stoned, told him with total authority that Sony had a new voice-activated system — you just say the name of the movie into the machine. The friend turned around and said 'Cast Away' into the DVD player. Twice. Tom Hanks notes that Bob Zemeckis never cut to an exterior shot of the plane during the crash, keeping the tension entirely from the passenger perspective.
Tom Hanks and screenwriter Bill Broyles began discussing Cast Away approximately six years before cameras rolled.
Cast Away took six years from the first conversation between Hanks and screenwriter Bill Broyles to cameras rolling. Broyles came up with the volleyball and named it Wilson as a tribute to Hanks's wife Rita Wilson — a detail Hanks revealed nearly broke Sean Hayes.
The volleyball named Wilson in Cast Away was a deliberate tribute to Tom Hanks's wife Rita Wilson, written by screenwriter Bill Broyles.
At the time of recording in 2021, Tom Hanks noted he and Rita Wilson were approaching 34 years of marriage.
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