Yahoo News Tom Hanks Says He’d Serve Food and Clean Toilets Onboard Rocket for Chance to Go into Space
Hanks put in his lunar mission bid as he promoted his new Apollo exhibition "The Moonwalkers"
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Tom HanksTom Hanks has his sights set on space — for real this time.
The actor, 67, — who famously played American astronaut Jim Lovell in the 1995 film Apollo 13 — shared his wish to be part of a lunar mission as he promoted his new immersive exhibition, The Moonwalkers, in London.
“I would like to be the guy in charge of serving food and making jokes to and from the moon,” Hanks told The Telegraph. “If there was room, I would be the guy that cleans up, makes jokes, tells stories and keeps everybody entertained.”
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“I’m your man. I would probably sign up right now!” the actor continued. “That might be a good idea, I’ll do all the work. I’ll clean the toilet. I’ll serve the food. I’ll fold clothes. I’ll stow the gear. That way the others could be free to do other stuff.”
Hanks narrates a series of stories of the Apollo missions in The Moonwalkers, an immersive film he co-wrote with BAFTA-nominated writer and director Christopher Riley, which plays at the Lightroom in King’s Cross, London starting Dec. 6.
In the film, the actor also interviews astronauts on the NASA Artemis program, a group he praised for being evenly split with men and women — paving the way for the first woman on the moon, as crewed surface missions return to space.
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“Four people on Artemis are going to see the Earth rise over the moon and some of them are going to be a gender other than male,” Hanks said of the team. “I think that says everything about the progress of humankind right there.”
Artemis-II is set to launch next November with four more astronauts going on the same journey as Lovell and Apollo 8.
Hanks called The Moonwalkers “truly the most immersive medium I’ve ever witnessed," due to the “massive volume” of the Lightroom. He shared with the Telegraph he was inspired after seeing the David Hockney exhibition there. “You could walk on to the moon in here if you wanted to,” Hanks explained.
The actor added that he was also inspired by images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, which he described as a “time machine.”
The Moonwalkers has a run time of 50 minutes and is accompanied by an original score by Anne Nikitin, who worked on the Apple TV+ series Hijack, starring Idris Elba.
The show runs from Dec. 6 to April 21, 2024. Tickets are available online.
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