Speaking on Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review in 2019, Hanks said: “Let me just go back a little bit, my make-up man, [the late] Danny Striepeke – who did my make-up, for I think, 17 films – had done Elvis on, among others, Viva Las Vegas… and Harum Sacrum and Kissin’ Cousins.
“So he had made some really lousy Elvis movies. He told me stories about both Elvis and also Colonel Parker.
“So I was a little bit hip to what that union was… that odd kinda like…Mephistophelian bargain…”
The 64-year-old’s reference there was to Mephistopheles, a demon from German folklore who makes a pact with Faust for his soul on behalf of the devil.