Originally Aired 10/2000
Shown on The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
Transcribed by Sarah (Thanks!!)
Rosie at the beginning of the program talking about her guests refers to Colin as:
The lovely and talented little Colin Hanks, whom I have known
since he was a little boy, who is now starring in Roswell on TV.
Colin Hanks is here today.
Rosie introducing Colin:
I met our next guest when he was in seventh grade hanging out
with "the League of Their Own" with his Dad. Now he
is all grown up and starring on the TV series Roswell.
They then played a clip of the scene from "Skin and
Bones" when Alex and Isabel were sitting at the Crashdown
and the geologist Grant S comes up to talk to them.
Colin walks onto the set.
R: Please welcome cutie patutie Colin Hanks. All right so Colin,
I am very, very good friends with your step mother.
C: Yes, very close.
R. I'm reading the notes two nights ago.... I go, it's funny,
that is the same name as Tom and Rita's kid. I did not even know
that you were on this show.
C: I am working now. I am working now.
R: Colin when did you do this whole acting thing?
C: Well I just got into it about ..... I got into it professionally
like about two years ago. I have been doing it ever since I was
a little kid. You saw me when I was on summer vacation when I
was in the seventh grade, I had to go back and do the seventh
grade play. Go back to school....
R: Exactly.
C: So, I have been doing it for a while.... been doing it for
a while.
R: You grew up on the sets of so many movies. I know with "League
of Our Own" where....
C: I have not seen you for so long.
R: Has it been that long?
C: It's been like nine years.
R: It's hard to believe.
C: I was like a little tyke. You were.... she was sweet to
me, because we played that hat flipping game. You see we would
always be wearing hats. You know, you would sneak up behind me
and flip my hat off. And at the end when I had to go back to school,
the crew got me a nice little shirt. You remember what you wrote
on the shirt. You did not write "I am going to miss you",
you wrote: "17-25, I win". That was it.
R: Sounds like me. Because I would sneak up behind you when
you like were eating a hot dog and I would BOOM, get it right
off.
C: "I'm up five! I'm up five!"
R: That was me. Exactly!
C: You're right. You were sweet though.
R: And where did you go to college?
C: I went to Loyola Marymount out in LA.
R: And how did you do? Were you a good student?
C: I was okay. I just sort of did it. I just went to college
for like the whole social aspect of it and I was hoping that I
have have something cool to move on to. So I went and did my theatre
classes and stuff like that.
R: And what about your Dad, is he proud about the whole acting
thing?
C: He is proud of it, yeah. I get these calls now and again:
"Hey, I saw you on the show and the thing that you did with
the milkshake, that was good, but we are having Chinese food for
dinner. Come right over." and sort of hangs up the phone.
He is a sweetheart. He is proud of me. I mean... that makes me
feel good.
R: How about your sister, does she have acting aspirations?
C: No, I think she wants to be a writer. She started a little
magazine out in LA, a little fanzine of sorts and she is doing
the writing thing. She is doing her own thing.
R: Now, are you getting recognized when you go out, because
I know that that show is unbearably popular?
C: Well, if you want to know it, a little. Not too much and
luckily you know. I have some really embarrassing moments. Last
week.... last week, I went to a gas station and put the nozzle
in my tank, went in, got my Gatorade, came out and drove out of
the gas station with the nozzle in my tank.
And there were like thirty people waiting to get gas. And I
am like please, please, please no one recognize me. This is like
the one time where I am like no please and like luckily no one.....
R: Was there like gas everywhere?
C: I was sitting there. I'm driving. I look in my side mirror
and I notice the handle is broken and laying on the ground. And
I see the cashier like run out and taking the pump and there is
gas spewing everywhere.
R: Oh No!
C: I am running in the garage and I cannot find anything to
plug up the hole and he is yelling at me: "Go get a rag.
Get a rag!"
R: At least you stopped. Some people would have just taken
off.
C: Well the first thing, after he finished making the gasoline
stop coming out, he grabbed the receipt to make sure that he had
my name and everything. I had to sit there behind the register
while everyone else is paying for their gas. I am like going,
"my driver's license is B something and I was.... it was
like sitting there with a dunce cap on. It was bad. Everyone is
going: "That is the guy who pulled out with the nozzle"
R: That's bad. But you will never ever do that again.
C: I learned.... I learned my lesson.
R: I remember too. Didn't you have a bad hand injury yourself?
Note: Rosie has one of her hands covered in bandages.
C: Yeah, you know, you think your hand injury is embarrassing,
I fractured my wrist playing hacky sacking. Honest to God, there
were when I was young...... This was actually the very next year
after "the League of Their Own".
R: Yes, I remember. Isn't that that little ball?
C: It's that little bag that's filled with beans and everyone
stands around in a circle and kicks it. And these professional
hacky sackers. There are professional hacky sackers.
R: Who knew!
C: Who knew!
I am sure that it was an Olympic sport and NBC just did not cover
it. And I was inspired by these professional hacky sackers. So
we got a group of guys and were hacky sacking and were doing great.
And this one kicks the it really high in the air. I am running
over to try and get it and I don't notice that I was going from
the grass to the cement. I lean out and it goes..... and rolls
off my foot and I fall back and break my wrist on the cement.
R: How long did you have a cast?
C: A couple of months.
R: Did you tell everyone hacky sacking?
C: Yeah, but everyone was like you would be trying a difficult
trip. I am like, yeah, I was trying to back flip.
R: People say: "What happened?"
And I say: "Fishing".
They always go: "Did you catch it?"
And I go: "I reeled that baby in."
I was taking the price tag off when I cut it.
Colin! ( I'm a) moron. My son is saying: "Mommy will get
it" and BOOM through my hand.
C: We will embellish now and we are going out in a blaze of
glory.
R: It's great to see you, all grown up and handsome and doing
so well, little Colin Hanks. If you had a hat on, I would whip
it off you, I really would.
Great to see you. And Roswell is on Monday nights on the WB
at 9.00PM. Definitely tune in for that. It's a big, big craze
amongst the young kids in America. They seem to like it.
C: They seem to like it.
R: Thanks for being here.
C: Thanks for having me.