Tom Hanks was a proud dad while jamming out to son Chet Hanks‘ performance at the 2026 Stagecoach Festival.
“When you watch Chet Hanks and realize his dad is next to you,” read the caption of a fan’s TikTok video, which showed Tom, 69, in the crowd as Chet’s band Something Out West took the stage inside the Toyota Music Den on Saturday, April 25.
Tom was seen mouthing the words to the song “You Better Run,” which notably pays homage to his Oscar-winning movie Forrest Gump.
Something Out West consists of Chet, 35, and bandmate Drew Arthur. The music video for “You Better Run” was released in 2025 and showed Chet in a suit sitting on a bench with a box of chocolates. The band then performed on a shrimp fishing boat named Jenny before Tom joined Chet on the bench.
Tom, who shares Chet with wife Rita Wilson, has supported his son’s creative ventures over the years. Chet, meanwhile, has been candid about how having famous parents affected his childhood — and his life now.
“I’ll tell you something about my childhood. People think that being Tom Hanks’ son, like, I would grow up feeling like I was the s***,” Chet said on the 2024 season premiere of MTV’s Surreal Life: Villa of Secrets. “I actually grew up feeling completely f***king worthless.”
The musician didn’t blame his experience on his famous parents.
“People treated me like, ‘You must think you’re better than me,’ when I didn’t. I just wanted to be friends with everybody and be treated like everybody else,” he told his costars. “But what am I supposed to do? Walk through the doors and be all meek and timid? That was a mind f*** for me to deal with.”
Chet continued, “If you do walk in through the door and you’re like, ‘Here I am mother f***er,’ then it’s like, ‘Oh, look at you arrogant son of a bitch.’ I did internalize all that negativity. Maybe I am f***ing worthless, you know what I’m saying?”
According to Chet, it was a “battle” for him “mentally and emotionally just to be able to walk outside, look someone in the eye and say, ‘What’s up? I’m Chet.’”
Chet has since found success with shows such as Netflix’s Running Point. Before the second season premiered on Thursday, April 23, Chet agreed when Us Weekly suggested at the Los Angeles premiere that his parents — or brother Colin Hanks — should make an appearance on the show with him.
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