Met with applause, Hanks continued: “When you see something that is brand new, that you can’t imagine, and you think ‘well thank God this landed’, because I think a movie like La La Land would be anethema to studios.
It’s funny,” he told the audience, before asking: “Who saw La La Land yesterday?”
La La Land, Chazelle’s next film after the Oscar-winning Whiplash, stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling and has attracted some very positive reviews.
In a move he joked would probably irk the film’s studio Warner Bros, Tom Hanks went on a tangent in the middle of a Q&A session for Sully at Telluride Film Festival this week to heap praise on Damien Chazelle’s much-talked about La La Land.