Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks is spotted on the set of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close on Wednesday in New York (Mar. 23). Continuing the scene he shot the day before (pics here), the actor was seen having fun on a swing set in Central Park.

Hanks' new film is based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer. Here's what he told Mother Jones after its release in 2005:

"Actually, I think it's a greater risk not to write about [9/11]. If you're in my position—a New Yorker who felt the event very deeply and a writer who wants to write about things he feels deeply about—I think it's risky to avoid what's right in front of you. None of the ways people were talking about September 11 felt right to me. I don't buy into the way Bush talks about it. I don't buy into the way the 9/11 commission talks about it. It isn't that I don't believe them. It's just that they're not the tellings for me."

*24 Tom Hanks pictures total in the gallery:

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks is seen on the set of his new film Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close in New York's Central Park on Tuesday (Mar. 22). His co-star Sandra Bullock was spotted on set last week (pics here).

Even though Tom's one of the most famous movie stars in the world, he recently took on a side job: babysitter! Well . . . sort of. Matthew McConaughey revealed that he ran into the Toy Story star on Oscar night and reimbursed him for helping take such good care of his son Levi:

"[Levi's] main thing is Toy Story. Toy Story 1, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3 - 'Papa, I want to watch Woody, where's Woody?' And that's his thing. I mean daily. We have to kind of govern him on it a little bit because it's all the time.

"And so I run into Tom Hanks (on) Oscar evening and I slip him a 100 (dollar bill). And he says 'What's that for?' And I says, 'Trust me, I owe you a lot more than that for the amount of time you've been babysitting my son Levi.'"

*24 Tom Hanks pictures total in the gallery: