Tom Hanks’ son Chet Hanks confronted various Solid Away jokes after revealing he’s caught in Colombia with out his U.S. passport.
“Free me! Free me,” Chet, 35, joked through an Instagram video on Friday, February 27.
The Working Level actor defined that he just lately traveled to Puerto Rico for his “homeboy Max’s birthday celebration” and “had fun.” After the birthday festivities, Chet determined to go to one other pal in Medellín, Colombia.
“Sounds good, proper? Nicely, verify this out,” he quipped earlier than revealing his nightmare journey story.
Per Chet, he has been “touring with my Greek passport as a result of I’m a twin citizen” and thus determined to depart his U.S. passport at house because it was about to run out.
“Typically they don’t allow you to within the nation, even when it hasn’t expired, however it’s about to run out,” Chet claimed.
Chet apparently had a wild time in Medellín however the journey took a hectic flip when he confirmed up on the airport to fly again house.
“I am going to the airport to verify in (for) my flight three hours early,” he mentioned. “That is a global flight. They inform me that if I’m utilizing a overseas passport, I want a inexperienced card to get again into America.”
The issue with the airport employees’s request is that Chet doesn’t have a inexperienced card since he’s “an American citizen.”
“I’m actually caught in Colombia. I’m caught in Medellín,” he admitted to viewers. “Granted, there’s worse locations to be caught, however I actually haven’t any f***ing concept what I’m gonna do, and the one embassy to get this s*** settled is in Bogota.”
Chet Hanks, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, and Truman Hanks in January 2024.
Amy Sussman/Getty PhotographsChet defined that he was reluctant to journey from Medellín to Bogota so as to get the journey subject resolved.
“So, free me,” he jokingly begged.
Us Weekly has reached out to Chet’s representatives for remark.
Chet didn’t appear too pressured about his journey scenario, as he later shared quite a few movies and photographs of himself partying with pals.
The feedback of Chet’s video had been full of followers humorously referencing his dad’s traditional film Solid Awaythe place Tom performed a Fedex courier stranded on a South Pacific island.
“Higher name somebody in your loved ones to have them FedEx your passport to you ASAP,” one Instagram person joked, whereas one other added, “Tom Hanks doesn’t have the perfect of luck with FedEx.”
One commenter slipped in a sly reference to a different of Tom’s films by suggesting that the Oscar winner is perhaps “ready on the terminal” for Chet. (The 2004 comedy The Terminal starred Tom, 69, as an Japanese European traveler caught at New York Metropolis’s John F. Kennedy Airport.)
Earlier than his trip troubles, Us Weekly completely chatted with the actor and musician a couple of potential collaboration together with his mother, Rita Wilson. Chet — who has launched music underneath the pseudonym “Chet Haze” — initially joked that he couldn’t “afford” to make a monitor together with his mother. (Whereas primarily identified for her appearing, Wilson, 69, has additionally launched 5 studio albums as a singer-songwriter.)
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“I’d most likely must signal my life away,” he joked to Us on the Clive Davis Pre-Grammys Gala on the Beverly Hilton Lodge on January 31.
Pressed on what sort of music they may make collectively, Chet hinted, “I don’t know, perhaps we’ll must do, like, a very ratchet, like, strip membership track or one thing, I don’t know. You by no means know. I believe she’s bought it in her.”
Chet is one among Tom’s 4 youngsters. The Da Vinci Code actor shares his eldest son, Colin Hanksand daughter, Elizabeth Ann “E.A.” Hanks, together with his first spouse, Samantha Lewesand welcomed Chet and his brother Truman Hanks with Wilson.