Tom Hanks worked as an unpaid intern and slept on a friend's couch in NYC before he got famous. (via CNBCMakeIt)
Tom Hanks credits much of his success today to his two friends: George Maguire and MichaelJohn McGann, the actor wrote in a new essay forThe three met working in Cleveland with the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival ensemble in the late 1970s. Hanks started as an unpaid intern and later joined the ranks of the ensemble as an actor alongside Maguire and McGann.
"[T]hey were the professionals I admired, examples of the kind of actor I wanted to be — and the kind of human being I hoped to become," Hanks wrote., he went through a period of unemployment, and relied on Maguire and McGann for advice. They suggested he move to New York City, as they had done, to pursue his dream career in acting.
So that's what Hanks did: he sold his car — a 1970 VW Beetle — to pay for the move, and drove east on the I-80 with McGann to New York City. There, he stayed on McGann's couch for weeks, while auditioning for movies, commercials and off-Broadway and Broadway shows.McGann even co-signed Hanks' first apartment lease, which was for a "horridly dark and busted-up fourth-floor walk-up in Hell's Kitchen.
"When these two pros showed me how to file my return so I'd get a refund from the IRS for nearly $600, the first moment of solvency in my adult life, I thought I had won the lottery," he wrote. Today, at 63, Hanks has won two Academy Awards and was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. In January 2020, he will
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