Chet Hanks Shares Memories of Jimmy Fallon on Tom Hanks' Band of Brothers Set
The Tonight Show Host appeared in the epic 2001 HBO miniseries, and Tom Hanks' son remembers him as "super nice."
Chet Hanks made his Tonight Show debut on March 12, but the actor and Jimmy Fallon go way back — they first hung out 25 years ago on the set of the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.
"Your dad, Tom Hanks, was directing me," Fallon recalled.
"That's the last time I saw him," Chet Hanks told the audience, before turning back to Fallon.
"And I wanted to tell you [...] I've met a lot of celebrities. And when you meet someone and they're really nice and they're kind, you never forget that," Chet Hanks told him. "You were definitely super nice to me, man."
"We played ping-pong when I was a kid, and this whole time... that was before you had this show, you were still doing SNL," the Running Point actor continued. "Every time something happened with you and your career, I've been cheering you on, dude. Anytime anybody brings you up, I'm like, 'Yeah, I met him. We played ping-pong. He's super nice.'"
Visibly touched, Fallon said, "I appreciate that. Thank you for saying that."
"I've been rooting for him my whole life. Since I was eight years old," Chet Hanks added.
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Chet Hanks' father Tom Hanks directed Jimmy Fallon in 2001
The Tonight Show Host shared his own memories of 8-year-old Chet Hanks on set, dressed as a little solider and playfully bossing people around.
"I also remember, by the way, you made me do push-ups because you were dressed like you were in the army," Fallon told him. "Everyone loved you. You were the cutest kid! People would give you missions to do. You said, 'Give me ten push-ups' or something, and I would do push-ups and stuff like that."
"But I'm so happy that you're here now," he added.
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"As an 8-year-old kid, you dress up and you play like, army man. This is like, the most intense way you could experience that," Chet Hanks reminisced. "Because I was like, 'I'm on a set with bombed-out villages, and extras.' I had a fake gun, the whole uniform and everything."
"The actors would always stay in character. So they would like give me missions like, 'Okay, go harass this guy and we'll promote you to a sergeant,'" he recalled.
"I remember all this stuff," said Fallon, as Hanks joked, "I think by the time you came around, I'd already made Lieutenant. So I was bossing people around. Abusing my power."
At the end of the interview, Hanks asked Fallon, "Hey, for old times sake, can you drop and give me 20? I'll do it with you."
The Tonight Show Host took him up on the challenge, as he walked in front of his desk. The two then got down on the floor and did push-ups together, like back in their Band of Brothers days.
Was Jimmy Fallon in Band of Brothers?
Yes. Jimmy Fallon made a cameo, playing Lt. George C. Rice, in the fifth episode of the epic 2001 HBO miniseries.
