Colin then wrote, “All [of] these are from one post. There are more but frankly, I’ve lost track and think you get the idea: this happens a lot.”
In another screenshot, six different people told Colin he “looks like a young Tom Hanks,” or “Once your beard goes grey we won’t be able to tell you and your dad apart.”
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Colin opened up about their resemblance and what it was like growing up with a famous father during an episode of Dax Shepard’s podcast The Armchair Expert.
He admitted having a well-known dad “can feel like hitting your head against the wall.”
“When I was starting off I was sort of lovingly naive, thinking that [being the son of Tom Hanks] wasn’t as big a deal as it is that I would get the benefit of the doubt that I was my own person. And that doesn’t happen.”