Robin Wright Recalls FilmingForrest GumpScene in D.C.'s Reflecting Pool: 'Very Dirty Water, Don't Do It'

Mar. 15, 2025

Robin Wrightdoes not recommend wading through the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C.

TheDamselactress recalled filming the scene in1994’sForrest Gumpin which her character Jenny and costar Tom Hanks’s titular character run through the Reflecting Pool to hug each other.

In an interview withDC Film Girl’s Lauren Veneziani, Wright, 57, said the water was “very dirty.”

“I think, I was told — maybe you know differently — that I was the first person to ever be able to step foot in that water. Very, very dirty water. Don’t do it. Don’t try this at home,” she said with a laugh.

“Yeah, there were some Coke cans at the bottom,” added Wright.

Robin Wright on March 1, 2024.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

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Forrest Gump,which marks its 30th anniversary this year,won six Oscars, including Best Picture. The cast also included Gary Sinise and Sally Field.

In a 2021 interview with TheDaily Beast, Wright echoed that the Reflecting Pool’s water was memorably dirty.

“Yep! And they said at the time that no one has everbeen allowed to do such a thing. They would never allow it, and I don’t know why they complied and I got to get in that dirty water,” she said.

“We giggled a lot, we did,” she told DC Film Girl of working with the cast. “It was in Portugal in summer — it was so hot. We were dying. So most of the time between takes we were just fanning ourselves in the corner of the cathedral.”

Damselis on Netflix Friday.

source: people.com