I Think I’m The Coolest Guy, Then Irrfan Khan Walks In: Tom Hanks

Hanks will star with Khan in the upcoming ‘Inferno’.

Irrfan Khan, Inferno director Ron Howard and Tom Hanks. (Photo courtesy: Twitter/@tomhanks)

Tom Hanks rejoiced in being the coolest guy on the sets of Hollywood film Inferno. But he says it lasted only until Indian actor Irrfan Khan walked in.

At a select global media event organised by Sony Pictures Entertainment, Hanks said:

Here’s what I hate about Irrfan Khan... I always think I’m the coolest guy in the room, and everybody’s hanging on to every word I say and everybody’s a little intimidated to be in my presence. And then Irrfan Khan walks into the room. And he’s the coolest guy in the room.

Tom Hanks, Actor

Tom Hanks with Irrfan Khan in a still from Inferno.

Irrfan, who has worked in a slew of Indian movies, has also proved his mettle internationally in critically-acclaimed works like The Namesake, A Mighty Heart, Life of Pi, the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire and the commercially successful The Amazing Spider-Man and Jurassic World. Come October 14, he will be seen in Inferno with Forrest Gump star Hanks.

After adapting Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons for the big screen, director Ron Howard has infused life to the author’s popular book Inferno.

In the film, based on the eponymous 2013 novel, Hanks will be seen reprising the role of Robert Langdon, a professor of symbology at Harvard University. Irrfan plays Harry The Provost Sims, head of The Consortium.