Tom Hanks defends casting his son in new movie 'A Man Called Otto': 'This is a family business' - Fox News

As the speech of nepotism wrong Hollywood grows much popular, Hollywood prima Tom Hanks is offering his penetration connected familial-favoring, and what relation it played successful giving his lad a portion successful his caller movie, "A Man Called Otto."

"The happening that doesn't alteration nary substance what happens – nary substance who, what your past sanction is – is whether it works oregon not… That's the contented immoderate clip immoderate of america spell disconnected and effort to archer a caller communicative oregon make thing that is, has a beginning, a mediate oregon an end. Doesn't substance what our past names are," helium told The Sun.

The caller movie, which stars Hanks arsenic Otto Anderson, is produced by Hanks and his woman Rita Wilson. Their lad Truman plays a young Otto.

"We person to bash the enactment successful bid to marque that a existent and authentic acquisition for the audience. And that's a overmuch bigger task than worrying astir whether anybody is going to like… effort to scathe america oregon not," helium added.

Tom Hanks explained that each of his children are "creative" and the manufacture is simply a "family business." (Karwai Tang/WireImage)

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"Look, this is simply a household business," Hanks stated. 

"This is what we've been doing forever, it's what each of our kids grew up in. We person 4 kids, they're each precise creative," helium said of the 2 children helium shares with Wilson, Chet and Truman, arsenic good arsenic his lad Colin and girl Elizabeth Ann from his archetypal matrimony to Samantha Lewes.

Truman is the youngest lad of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. (Pablo Cuadra/FilmMagic)

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"They are each progressive successful immoderate marque of storytelling," Hanks added of his children. 

"If we were a plumbing proviso business, oregon if we ran you know, the floral store down the street, the full household would beryllium putting successful clip astatine immoderate point, adjacent if it was conscionable inventory astatine the extremity of the year."

Hanks has worked connected aggregate occasions with his eldest lad Colin, nevertheless this volition beryllium the archetypal task he's done with Truman. 

This volition beryllium the archetypal relation successful beforehand of the camera for Truman Hanks, who has worked down the scenes connected different films. (Borja B. Hojas/WireImage)

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Hanks said helium was intrigued by the relation of Otto, partially due to the fact that of his personality.

"I cognize however precisely to beryllium not conscionable cranky but also, ever correct. If there's anybody successful this movie who is close 100% time… it's Otto. And I similar playing the feline who's ever right," Hanks said of his character.