Tom Hanks has epic interaction with Mr. Met dressed up as his ‘Cast Away’ co-star at MLB game

Tom Hanks meets Mr. Met.

While astatine nan New York Yankees vs. New York Mets crippled connected Saturday, Hanks had an epic relationship pinch nan second team’s mascot, who dressed up arsenic Wilson, nan volleyball companion to Hanks’ characteristic successful “Cast Away.”

In a video from nan crippled astatine Citi Field, Hanks, 69, popped up connected nan jumbotron and was amazed by Mr. Met, who had a ample reddish handprint connected his look to look for illustration nan bloody volleyball.

After nan brace shook hands, Hanks shouted “Wilson” — nan celebrated statement uttered by his character, Chuck Noland, successful nan 2000 film.

Hanks past pulled retired a notebook and jokingly went complete crippled pointers pinch nan mascot.

The Oscar victor antecedently reunited pinch Wilson successful 2022, erstwhile he held a blood-smeared volleyball complete his caput arsenic he threw retired nan first transportation astatine a Cleveland Guardians vs. San Francisco Giants game.

In “Cast Away,” Hanks plays Chuck, a FedEx troubleshooter who ends up stranded connected a deserted land aft his level crashes successful nan South Pacific.

During his conflict for survival, Chuck gets humor connected a volleyball, which he names Wilson and adopts arsenic his surrogate companion.

Later successful nan film, Wilson ends up accidentally washing disconnected Chuck’s raft during a large wind and drifts distant from Chuck into nan ocean.

During a 2024 question and reply pinch ReelBlend, Hanks explained really Wilson ended up becoming captious to nan film’s plot.

“We had a different benignant of screenplay successful that Chuck Noland said each nan time,” he said. “We sewage to nan land and literally, nan very first shot, we opportunity [to head Robert Zemeckis], ‘I don’t spot immoderate logic for Chuck to talk here, unless you deliberation personification is there.'”

“And Bob said, ‘You know, that’d beryllium awesome because you’re not really going to person immoderate lines until Wilson shows up.’ I said, ‘Perfect,’” Hanks recalled.

Hanks antecedently revealed successful a 2009 question and reply pinch nan BBC that he was hospitalized and almost died of a staph infection while filming “Cast Away.”

“I was location for 3 days pinch thing that, judge it aliases not, almost killed me,” he explained. “I sewage an infection from a cut, and it was eating its measurement done my leg.”

Hanks was nominated for nan 2001 Best Actor Oscar for “Cast Away.” He mislaid to Russell Crowe for “Gladiator.”