Looks like running — and playing Forrest Gump — runs in the Hanks family.
In the “You Better Run” music video for Chet Hanks’ band Something Out West, the singer tapped his famous father Tom Hanks to re-create scenes from Forrest Gump more than 30 years after the actor starred in the iconic film.
The three-minute music video opens with Chet sitting on a park bench in a replica of his father’s costume from the movie, paying tribute to one of its most famous visuals. Between clips of the younger Hanks retracing his dad’s footsteps while redoing more Forrest Gump scenes — including walking beside “Jenny,” getting chased down by a group of bullies and embarking on a yearslong jog across the United States — the video splices in shots of Something Out West performing the country-tinged rock track on a shrimp boat as another homage to the Robert Zemeckis-directed movie.
Partway through the video, Chet’s Academy Award-winning father joins him on the bench and shoots him stern-but-loving looks, at some points looking overstimulated by his son’s overexuberance. The closing shots, however, find the two men smiling together and exchanging a big hug.
“You better run like the devil’s on your tail/ Like you broke out of jail/ Like a big storm’s coming,” Chet sings on the track, which will appear on Something Out West’s upcoming Leaving Hollywood EP. “Run like a wild mustang/ Like a bullet train/ Let me tell you something.”
Tom shares Chet and son Truman with actress Rita Wilson. He’s also a dad to son Colin and daughter Elizabeth, whom he shares with ex-wife Samantha Lewes.
It’s long been clear that the Cast Away star and Chet have a special bond, with the latter at some points keeping his father hip on pop culture. Last year, for instance, the 35-year-old actor shared hilarious screenshots showing how he explained Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s feud to Tom over text.
“Big Main, can you explain the Drake/Kendrick Lamar feud to me?” the elder Hanks wrote at the time, adding after Chet filled him, “Holy cow! These are fighting words. People taking sides?? Who’s winning??”
Before joining Something Out West, Chet dabbled in a hip-hop career under the moniker Chet Haze.
Watch the father-son duo co-star in the “You Better Run” music video above.
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