TIME Magazine has unveiled the first look at Tom Hanks as Walt Disney in the upcoming movie Saving Mr. Banks.
The photo depicts Hanks as the legendary entertainment icon walking alongside P.L. Travers portrayed by Emma Thompson. They are walking down Disneyland’s Main Street U.S.A in 1961. The cast filmed on location at the real theme park in Anaheim, California this past November.
P.L. is the author behind the Mary Poppins books, and in Saving Mr. Banks, we watch her life unfold and experience a rocky relationship with Walt because she doesn’t want her work to be changed by a movie studio.
In a new interview with TIME, Thompson says taking on the role of P.L. was her most difficult task to date. “She was a woman of quite eye-watering complexity and contradiction,” she said. “Often I play people who are controlled by some very clear guiding moral principles. Like Margaret Schlegel [in Howards End], guided by the early principles of feminism and equal rights, and Elinor Dashwood [in Sense and Sensibility], guided by the principles of decency and honor. There are very clear moral prisms these women pour life through, and I understand that very well. And [Travers] was not like that at all. She was far more chaotic and confused and morally various.”
Saving Mr. Banks opens in theaters December 20.
Since some filming was conducted at Disneyland park, numerous photos from the set surfaced in November and offered a blurry but enjoyable look at Hanks taking on the role of Walt.
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