Editing Forrest Gump (section)

== Cast ==
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* [[Tom Hanks]] as Forrest Gump: At an early age, Forrest is deemed to have [[IQ classification|a below-average IQ]] of 75. He has an endearing character and shows devotion to his loved ones and duties, character traits that bring him into many life-changing situations. Along the way, he encounters many historical figures and events throughout his life. Hanks also briefly plays [[Nathan Bedford Forrest]] in ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' scene.
** [[Michael Conner Humphreys]] as young Forrest Gump: Hanks revealed in interviews that instead of having Humphreys copy his accent, he incorporated Humphreys' unique Southern accented drawl into the older character's accent.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cjdnA2hBTI |title=Tom Hanks on the Inspiration for Forrest Gump {{!}} Life in Pictures |date=2018-11-21 |last=BAFTA Guru |access-date=2024-07-09 |via=YouTube}}</ref> 
* [[Robin Wright]] as Jenny Curran: Forrest's childhood friend with whom he immediately falls in love, and never stops loving throughout his life. A victim of [[child sexual abuse]] at the hands of her bitter, widowed father, Jenny embarks on a different path from Forrest, leading a self-destructive life and becoming part of the [[hippie]] movement in California in the 1960s and the following [[Me Decade]]'s sex and drug culture of the 1970s. She re-enters Forrest's life at various times in adulthood. Jenny eventually becomes a waitress in Savannah, Georgia, where she lives in an apartment with her (and Forrest's) son, Forrest Jr. They eventually get married, but soon afterward she dies from complications due to an unnamed disease. This unknown disease was intended by Winston Groom, the author of the original novel, to be [[Hepatitis C]], itself an "unknown virus" until defined in April 1989,<ref name="choo">{{cite journal | vauthors = Choo QL, Kuo G, Weiner AJ, Overby LR, Bradley DW, Houghton M | title = Isolation of a cDNA clone derived from a blood-borne non-A, non-B viral hepatitis genome | journal = Science | volume = 244 | issue = 4902 | pages = 359–62 | date = April 1989 | pmid = 2523562 | doi = 10.1126/science.2523562 | url = http://courses.washington.edu/conj504/readings/polyak_reading1.pdf | citeseerx = 10.1.1.469.3592 | bibcode = 1989Sci...244..359C | author-link4 = Lacy Overby | access-date = April 17, 2021 | archive-date = February 26, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210226032227/http://courses.washington.edu/conj504/readings/polyak_reading1.pdf | url-status = live | issn=0036-8075}}</ref><ref name="kuo">{{cite journal | vauthors = Kuo G, Choo QL, Alter HJ, Gitnick GL, Redeker AG, Purcell RH, Miyamura T, Dienstag JL, Alter MJ, Stevens CE | display-authors = 6 | title = An assay for circulating antibodies to a major etiologic virus of human non-A, non-B hepatitis | journal = Science | volume = 244 | issue = 4902 | pages = 362–4 | date = April 1989 | pmid = 2496467 | doi = 10.1126/science.2496467 | bibcode = 1989Sci...244..362K }}</ref> although some of the makers of the film have said that they intended for the unknown disease to have been [[HIV/AIDS]].<ref>{{cite news
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 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.factinate.com/things/50-facts-forrest-gump-momma-didnt-tell/2/ |title=Facts About Forrest Gump That Momma Didn't Tell You – Page 2 of 51 |date=January 8, 2017 |access-date=June 17, 2020 |archive-date=June 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617110717/https://www.factinate.com/things/50-facts-forrest-gump-momma-didnt-tell/2/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://newravel.com/uncategorized/forrest-gump-facts/ |title=Forrest Gump Left Out an Important Character Detail They Hoped Audiences Wouldn't Notice |date=March 2017 |access-date=June 17, 2020 |archive-date=June 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617134411/https://newravel.com/uncategorized/forrest-gump-facts/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Hanna R. Hall]] as young Jenny Curran.
* [[Gary Sinise]] as [[First lieutenant|Lieutenant]] Dan Taylor: Forrest and Bubba Blue's platoon leader during the Vietnam War, whose ancestors have died in every U.S. war and who regards it as his destiny to do the same. After losing his legs in an ambush and being rescued against his will by Forrest, he is initially bitter and antagonistic toward Forrest for leaving him a "cripple" and denying him his family's destiny, falling into a deep depression. He later serves as Forrest's first mate at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, gives most of the orders, becomes wealthy with Forrest, and regains his will to live. He ultimately forgives and thanks Forrest for saving his life. By the end of the film, he is engaged to be married to his fiancée Susan and is sporting "magic legs" – [[Titanium Beta C|titanium alloy]] [[prosthetics]] that allow him to walk again.
* [[Mykelti Williamson]] as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue: Bubba was originally supposed to be the senior partner in the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, but due to his death in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]], their platoon leader, Dan Taylor, took his place. The company posthumously carried his name. Forrest later gave Bubba's mother ([[Marlena Smalls]]) Bubba's share of the business. Throughout filming, Williamson wore a lip attachment to create Bubba's protruding lip.<ref name="BubbaLip">{{cite news|last=Daly |first=Sean |title=Mykelti Williamson later said the 'Forrest Gump' role nearly ruined his acting career |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n17_v92/ai_19783689/ |work=[[Jet (magazine)|Jet]] |publisher=[[FindArticles]] |date=September 15, 1997 |access-date=July 2, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006041319/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n17_v92/ai_19783689/ |archive-date=October 6, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Sally Field]] as Mrs. Gump: Forrest's mother. Field reflected on the character, "She's a woman who loves her son unconditionally. ... A lot of her dialogue sounds like slogans, and that's just what she intends."<ref name="MamaGump">{{cite news|last=Wuntch|first=Philip|title=In character – Sally Field finding the good roles|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SAEC&p_theme=saec&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F223282B1F7BF2A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D|format=Fee required|work=[[San Antonio Express-News]]|date=July 18, 1994|access-date=July 2, 2009|archive-date=October 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009013246/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SAEC&p_theme=saec&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F223282B1F7BF2A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Haley Joel Osment]] as Forrest Gump Jr.: Osment was cast in the film after the casting director noticed him in a 1993 [[Pizza Hut]] commercial. It was his debut feature film role.<ref name="OsmentPizza">{{cite news|last=Daly|first=Sean|title=Haley Joel Osment on Robots and Reality|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BN&p_theme=bn&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED0BE811A53FD6B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D|format=Fee required|work=[[The Buffalo News]]|date=July 1, 2001|access-date=July 2, 2009|archive-date=October 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009052644/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BN&p_theme=bn&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED0BE811A53FD6B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hunt |first=Elle |date=2020-07-20 |title='I grew a beard to try to hide in public': Haley Joel Osment on success after child stardom |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/20/haley-joel-osment-on-the-sixth-sense-a-lot-of-child-actors-have-a-positive-experience |access-date=2023-10-20 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
* [[Peter Dobson]] as [[Elvis Presley]]: Although [[Kurt Russell]] was uncredited, he provided the voice for Elvis in the scene.<ref name="RussellElvis">{{cite news|last=Eler |first=Robert K. |title=598-page encyclopedia covers a whole lot of Elvis |url=http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/jan/22/598-page-encyclopedia-covers-whole-lot-el-20090122/?print |format=Fee required |work=[[Arkansas Democrat Gazette]] |date=January 22, 2009 |access-date=October 20, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721061235/http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/jan/22/598-page-encyclopedia-covers-whole-lot-el-20090122/?print |archive-date=July 21, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Dick Cavett]] as himself: Cavett played a [[De-aging in film|de-aged]] version of himself in the 1970s, with [[makeup]] applied to make him appear younger. Consequently, Cavett is the only well-known figure in the film to play a [[cameo role]] rather than be represented through the use of [[archival footage]] like [[John Lennon]], [[Alabama]] Governor [[George Wallace]], and Presidents [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], and [[Richard Nixon]].<ref name="DVDCavett">{{cite video|title=Forrest Gump-(Seeing is Believing: The Visual Effects of Forrest Gump-John Lennon with Dick Cavett)|medium=DVD|publisher=[[Paramount Pictures]]|date=August 28, 2001}}</ref>
*[[Sam Anderson]] as Principal Hancock: Forrest's elementary school principal.
*[[Geoffrey Blake (actor)|Geoffrey Blake]] as Wesley: A member of the [[Students for a Democratic Society|SDS]] group and Jenny's abusive boyfriend.
*[[Siobhan Fallon Hogan]] as Dorothy Harris: The school bus driver who drives Forrest, and later his son, to school.
* [[Sonny Shroyer]] as Coach [[Paul "Bear" Bryant]].
* [[Grand L. Bush]], [[Michael Jace]], Conor Kennelly, and Teddy Lane Jr. as the [[Black Panthers]].
* Richard D'Alessandro as [[Abbie Hoffman]].
* Tiffany Salerno and Marla Sucharetza as "Cunning" Carla and "Long-Limbs" Lenore: a couple of prostitutes that Forrest and Dan spend a New Year's evening with and later turn away.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/tiffany_salerno | title=Tiffany Salerno – Rotten Tomatoes | website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] | access-date=October 12, 2022 | archive-date=October 12, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012102231/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/tiffany_salerno | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/marla-sucharetza | title=Marla Sucharetza – Rotten Tomatoes | website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] | access-date=October 12, 2022 | archive-date=October 12, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012102501/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/marla-sucharetza | url-status=live }}</ref>