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Actress Rita Wilson recently revealed that she will guest star on the Paramount+ Yellowstone prequel 1883, starring Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. Rita’s husband, Tom Hanks, guest starred as U.S. Civil War General George Meade in episode 2 of the series, and it turns out Tom & Rita are real life friends of Tim & Faith. According to Tim, “We’ve been friends for such a long time. We’re family friends forever. Our kids are friends, Faith and Rita are best friends,”
Despite their friendship, Tim knows that Tom is an in-demand, two-time Oscar winner, so he says, “It was pretty spectacular for Tom Hanks to show up and do the scene… to ask him to do this scene and he says, ‘Sure, I’ll be there. Tell me when,’ was just so incredible.”
And even though they’re friends, Tom Hanks is such an incredible actor that he brought Tim to tears when they worked together. “To me it was one of the most moving scenes in the show,” says Tim. “And it starts with an original picture from the battleground scene. You find out that (my character) was a Captain in the Civil War and I had a lot of PTSD from that. No matter how good of friends you are and how well you know someone, when you’re sitting there in a scene that’s that emotional and you see Tom Hanks walk up in a Union uniform, and look at you and say, ‘Captain.’ And then he just sat beside me and he puts his hand on my shoulder and he goes, ‘I know.’ I just fell apart. That’s somebody that knows what they’re doin’. He was just really good.”
It hasn’t been announced which episode of 1883 Rita Wilson will appear in, but we know she’ll appear as a storekeeper named Carolyn at Doan’s Crossing who helps Margaret Dutton (played by Faith) decompress with some whiskey punch. You can catch new episodes of 1883, starring Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, every Sunday night on Paramount+.
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“It was pretty spectacular for Tom Hanks to show up and do the scene. We’ve been friends for such a long time. We’re family friends forever. Our kids are friends, Faith and Rita are best friends, and so to ask him to do this scene and he says, ‘Sure, I’ll be there. Tell me when,’ was just so incredible. To me it was one of the most moving scenes in the show. And it starts with an original picture from the battleground scene. You find out that I was a Captain in the Civil War and I had a lot of PTSD from that. No matter how good of friends you are and how well you know someone, when you’re sitting there in a scene that’s that emotional and you see Tom Hanks walk up in a Union uniform, and look at you and say, ‘Captain.’ And then he just sat beside me and he puts his hand on my shoulder and he goes, ‘I know.’ I just fell apart. That’s somebody that knows what they’re doin’. He was just really good.”