28 Years After Big, Tom Hanks Comes Face-to-Face With Zoltar Once Again

The 1988 classic film Big tells the story of a 13-year-old who magically gets his wish to be older, with the help of a soothsaying fortune teller machine named Zoltar. It is undoubtedly one of Tom Hanks‘s most iconic films (a claim that can be made about made projects over the years), and Monday night he came face-to-face with his old friend once again with a similar request.

Zoltar — played by Stephen Colbert during the cold open of the Late Show — is keen on helping Hanks one again, but this time the bit is slightly different. “I want you to turn me 30 years-old again,” said the veteran 60-year-old Hanks.

But Zoltar has his own ambitions at play in the bit, and hits Hanks with the proposition that every Hollywood A-Lister has faced at one time or another: being solicited to read a screenplay. “It’s about a carnival fortune telling machine. Kind of an everyman,” says Colbert’s Zoltar in the bit.

But when Hanks rebukes the offer, Zoltar’s clear intentions become clear. “You fool! You’re way too old to play me. I was hoping you could get this to Colin Hanks,” he says, passing along the script.

Watch above via CBS.

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