Tom Hanks and Robin Wright Wore Girdles, Used A.I. to Get ‘Rid of the Saggy Neck’ as 17-Year-Olds in Here

Playing teenagers in their new movie HereTom Hanks and Robin Wright relied on movie magic — and some skin-tight underwear.

A film that reunites exes Forrest Gump costars with director Robert Zemeckis, follows Richard (Hanks) and Margaret Young (Wright) over several years as they fall in love, marry and start a family together.

For the scenes in which Hanks (68) and Wright (58) portrayed younger versions of Richard and Margaret, Wright in a new interview with The New York Times.

“It’s literally the data they pulled from the interviews that Tom and I did when we were 18, 19, 21; photographs; things that are online. They put it in this machine and make us look like we’re 17 years old,” she said.

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Robin Wright and Tom Hanks in ‘Here’.

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Wright and Hanks also contributed, she added: “We wore costumes, we had belts when we had to be young.”

“We pushed each other physically, raising the octave in our voices, to be 17-year-olds,” Wright said elsewhere in the interview. “But AI gave us innocence in the eyes and youthful skin. And got rid of the sagging neck.”

Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in ‘Here’.

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The experience of seeing themselves aged in real time on a monitor as soon as they shot the scene was “crazy,” Hanks told PEOPLE at the film’s Oct. 25 world premiere. Here at AFI Fest in Los Angeles.

“That was kind of the humorous aspect of it, because you can do it with regular makeup if you want to. But because we have this second computer with a super-fast filter that happened right then and there, we don’t have to wait for the post-production process to see [ourselves as young].”

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But for Hanks, playing an adolescent was not the biggest challenge. It shows someone on the cusp of middle age.

“The hardest time for us was when we played 35. That time when your metabolism stops, gravity starts to knock you down, your bones wear out. You stand differently,” he said Party tonight.

Here it’s in theaters now.

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