Exactly 30 years after its publication Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks And Robin Wright We met again with the director Robert Zemeckis – for HtoagainIt’s a one-shot film about multi-generational families that takes place entirely in a single room.

Hanks and Wright portray a couple in the projectbecause their relationship has been followed for years. At the AFI Fest premiere in Los Angeles on Friday, Hanks said working together was “the same process” as it was in the ’90s.

“We have the same conversation over and over again; We run into each other from time to time. The first day we sat down for the first time to start knocking out our scripts, it was kind of like, ‘Can you believe this? How did this happen?’” Hanks said. Hollywood Reporter Reuniting with Wright. “But it was then, it is now, and we know better, so we easily find the luxury of knowing each other inside out and great, great trust and love.”

The actor added that he didn’t know Wright would be his co-star when he first signed on; Zemeckis then started pitching the idea, saying, “And I said, ‘Wouldn’t that be great?’ I said. Are we available then? Could this work? All these other things happen,” Hanks continued. “But we have a problem when it comes to working together; “Yes, of course,” you say.

Zemeckis reiterates he has no big plans Forrest Gump were reunited from the start, but it was “very, very lucky” that both stars said yes. To follow the actors throughout the decades of the story, the team worked with AI studio Metaphysic on a tool called Metaphysic Live, which creates facial changes and de-aging effects on top of the actors’ performances in real time.

“It was vital to tell the story; we couldn’t make the movie five years ago, so it was very, very lucky that this tool came along exactly when we needed it,” Zemeckis said, explaining that it was essentially a “digital makeover.” It also allowed the cast to see themselves 20 or 30 years younger while shooting the scene, rather than waiting for visual effects to be added later; “They look at it and say, ‘Oh, I’ve got it,'” the filmmaker added. ‘I have to move a little faster, raise my voice a little, to be a little more agile.’ “That was important for them to see.”

Here In theaters on November 1.