Tom Hanks may be having yet another banner year, between his acclaimed performance as Sully and as new Halloween icon David S. Pumpkins, but the fact remains that he’s getting older. And on Monday night, he stopped by The Late Show to try and do something about that: reunite with Zoltar, the fortune-teller machine from the movie Big, and get aged back down to 30.
Since Hanks went from 13 to 30 in Big, he’s now asking Zoltar—now played by a finely-bearded Stephen Colbert—to age him backward in time.* Zoltar, unfortunately, isn’t buying it. He can barely remember Hanks, finding him indistinguishable from Tim Allen—“We worked on that movie together—The Santa Clause?”—and seems skeptical of his motivations. But after asking Hanks what lesson he took away from Big, trying to trap him into changing his mind, the Oscar-winning actor makes a pretty convincing case for himself: “I learned that being older isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.” Need he say more?
*Correction, Oct. 25, 2016: This post originally misstated the age of Tom Hanks’ character in the film Big.
