Colin Hanks Talks Apple TV’s ‘Silo’ New Season & More with Rich

Colin Hanks has been coming on this show for eleven years, and he arrived this time with a new season of Silo, a completed passion project and a very specific set of World Cup observations. He also arrived, as tradition demands, ready to imagine NFL head coaches as stepfathers.

Season 3 of the Apple TV hit Silo premieres this week, and Hanks kept the sales pitch spoiler-free. "This show more than any other is such a great little mystery box of how these characters have ended up where they've ended up," he told Rich. His character, he teased, is one of the reasons why.

First, though, the World Cup, which has swallowed Hanks whole. "I cannot get enough," he said, describing the withdrawal of a Sunday with only one match on the schedule. "I'm Googling what channel Telemundo is to see if maybe I've missed something." He offered his own theory on the tournament's hand-raising ritual, comparing a corner kick to a snap count in football. "It's basically, I'm going to go now. I'm ready." As for the hydration breaks fans have started booing, Hanks pushed back on behalf of the players. "You run for 45 minutes, and then run for another 45 minutes, and then maybe run for another 30 minutes. Good luck with that."

He was pleased with the Stanley Cup playoffs and delighted, in a guilty way, that no Canadian team has won since 1993. Hanks maintains this is the ongoing curse of Marty McSorley's illegal stick. "I like to. It's fun," he said, only half joking, adding that he wants to make a documentary about it.

That documentary instinct is not idle. Hanks talked about John Candy: I Like Me, his film now streaming on Prime Video, and what surprised him most in making it. "John was exactly the kind of person that we all thought he was," Hanks said, describing a performer who treated the building owner and the person who opened the door exactly the same. He interviewed his own father for the project, and called it the easiest one he did, "cuz I didn't really care if I made him uncomfortable."

Then came the main event. The bit was born years ago when Hanks and his dad watched a game, looked at a head coach and wondered aloud what he would be like as a stepdad. This time Rich handed him six coaches. Nick Sirianni, arms raised, became the stepdad forever asking "What are we doing?" Mike McCarthy, oddly for a head coach, became the stepfather who shrugs "Well, that's not up to me." Ben Johnson, arms crossed, was the passive-aggressive "And?" Sean McVay, shirtless on vacation, drew a stumped Hanks who could only picture him answering every question with "100%."

Curt Cignetti, the college coach who inspired the whole tradition, was Hanks's favorite, the dad forever asking "When? When are the Stewarts coming over?" And Tom Brady in a leather jacket got the closer. "So what? Yeah, I'm wearing a leather jacket. I'm your stepdad, so what? What are you going to do about it? Do your job."

Silo season 3 premieres Friday on Apple TV, and John Candy: I Like Me is streaming now on Prime Video.