This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. You can watch “News of the World” in theaters on Christmas Day.Ĭopyright 2023 Sunbeam Television Corp. Helena Zengel: “I see a little bit myself in her because I’m also really self-confident and like to do things by myself.”

Tom Hanks: “That girl threw me curve balls again and again and again, and she wasn’t doing it to throw me curve balls. We do, too - although, wait ’til she hears about our politics. Helena Zengel: “I also had never been to America, I just heard a lot about this country and that it’s very beautiful, about the West, the Western. Helena Zengel: “When I first came here to America, I directly started with Kiowa lessons, and I started to learn something about their tradition, about how they live.” Little Helena Zengel, who’s from Germany, had a lot of homework to do before taking on the big part. Tom Hanks: “In Texas, particularly, there is strife and anger and defeat.

15-year old Michael is beset by Scarlet Fever and helped off the street one day by Hannah. He delivered a reading, and then he moved on to the next town.”īut after Jefferson stumbles upon a child who was held captive by the local Kiowa Tribe, he takes a dangerous journey across Texas to reunite the 10-year-old with her closest living relatives. The storyline begins with adult Michael (Ralph Fiennes) reminiscing about his adolescence in post-World War II Berlin and his fateful relationship with an older woman named Hannah (Kate Winslet). I ain’t never heard of that as a thing a man could do.” In “News of the World,” Tom plays a, well, news reporter of sorts, five years after the end of the Civil War.įred Hechinger (as John Calley): “So they pay you to tell stories.

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