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.