Tom Hanks Talks About His Role in 'The Terminal'

By Michele Norris

Published June 17, 2004 at 6:00 PM HST

NPR's Michele Norris talks with actor Tom Hanks about his new film The Terminal. Hanks describes how he developed the character of Viktor Navorski, a traveler from a fictional Eastern European nation who gets stuck in a New York City airport for months after a military coup in his native land.

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