Tom Hanks gets a fashion lesson
Tom Hanks once lost 55 pounds to play Chuck Noland in "Cast Away," but in his latest film, "Larry Crowne," it's his wardrobe overhaul that's the key to his character's transformation. When we meet Larry he's wearing a tight, tucked-in red polo shirt and a pair of painfully drab khakis. After his life implodes (he loses his job and his house) he enrolls in a community college where, to his good fortune, a wavy-tressed Julia Roberts happens to be his teacher and a sassy fellow student thankfully gives him style advice. Pretty soon he's careening around campus on a scooter in a motorcycle jacket and dark button-fly denim. We spoke to the cast, including Cedric the Entertainer and Taraji P. Henson, about how a new wardrobe can be the catalyst for reinvention as well as the result.
