Unrecognizable! This is what Forrest Gump’s child star looks like 30 years after the film premiered

The movie Forrest Gump was released in 1994 and has since become a movie classic. The story of a man with a low IQ who looks back on his life before he met his childhood love, Jenny.

One of the most famous scenes in the movie is when Jenny yells at him, “Run, Forrest, run!” to the then-young protagonist, a scene played by Michael Conner Humphreys, according to the Mirror.

Humphreys was only eight years old, but his performance was impressive. Now, 30 years after the film’s release, many fans don’t recognize it. The actor has changed a lot since then, partly due to his experience in the army.

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Forrest Gump child star

Acting alongside movie stars like Tom Hanks, who plays the grown-up Forrest Gump, Robin Wright and Gary Sinise, wasn’t the only good thing for little Michael Conner, as he got the chance to see an F18 fighter jet.

And that is that in an interview on The Paul Leslie Hour in 2020, the artist revealed that he was a lover of military technology since childhood, which led him to join the US Army when he graduated from high school, 10 years after filming Forrest Gump.

Thus, in 2008, Humphreys completed his military service, thus fulfilling what has become a family tradition, since his father and uncles were drafted for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq at the time, according to Qué Ver.

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Today, Michael Conner Humphreys is relatively active on social networks, especially on his Instagram profile, where he most often shares photos about his everyday life and meetings with friends or actors who participated in Forest Gump.

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