--- title: Tom Hanks as Walt Disney, Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers description: Emma Thompson has taken on some difficult roles during her career, winning Oscars and numerous other awards for her performances in works based on classic... canonical: https://time.com/archive/7118354/exclusive-first-look-tom-hanks-and-emma-thompson-in-saving-mr-banks/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2013-07-10T12:00:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-25T05:55:25.341Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Exclusive First Look: Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson in 'Saving Mr. Banks' og:description: Take a look at the first photo of the actors in character as Walt Disney and 'Mary Poppins' author P.L. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) Jul 10, 2013 12:00 PM UTC  "SAVING MR. BANKS" SMB\_05582FD Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) shows Disneyland to "Mary Poppins" author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) in Disney's "Saving Mr. Banks," releasing in U.S. theaters limited on December 13, 2013 and wide on December 20, 2013\. Ph: François Duhamel ©Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved. "SAVING MR. BANKS" SMB\_05582FD Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) shows Disneyland to "Mary Poppins" author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) in Disney's "Saving Mr. Banks," releasing in U.S. theaters limited on December 13, 2013 and wide on December 20, 2013\. Ph: François Duhamel ©Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved. François Duhamel—©Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved. by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) Jul 10, 2013 12:00 PM UTC Emma Thompson has taken on some difficult roles during her career, winning Oscars and numerous other awards for her performances in works based on classic literature and historical events. But, says the actress, one role stands apart from the rest. “She’s the most difficult person I’ve ever played,” Thompson says of her role as P.L. Travers, the author of the _Mary Poppins_ books,in the forthcoming film _Saving Mr. Banks_. The movie, coming out this holiday season, is Disney’s take on Travers’ life and, eventually, the stormy relationship she had with the studio’s own mastermind, Walt Disney. Here, TIME presents an exclusive first official look at Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers and Tom Hanks as Walt Disney. In the scene shown here, Travers has come to Disneyland, in 1961, to meet with the man himself. (**MORE**: [10 Questions for Emma Thompson](http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1149384,00.html)) Of course, today’s audiences have long enjoyed their resulting cinematic collaboration: Disney’s 1964 _Mary Poppins_ movie. But the film was a struggle to make: even though Disney had a personal interest in Travers’ tale of a magical nanny, it being one of his daughters’ favorites, the author was not interested in her work being changed by a movie studio. “She was a woman of quite eye-watering complexity and contradiction,” says Thompson, whose first-ever movie-going experience was seeing a Disney movie, _Fantasia_, as a child. “Often I play people who are controlled by some very clear guiding moral principles. Like Margaret Schlegel \[in _Howards End_\], guided by the early principles of feminism and equal rights, and Elinor Dashwood \[in _Sense and Sensibility_\], guided by the principles of decency and honor. There are very clear moral prisms these women pour life through, and I understand that very well. And \[Travers\] was not like that at all. She was far more chaotic and confused and morally various.” Travers, who died in 1996, wrote five _Mary Poppins_ stories and many other books. She was a private person whose personal life has remained unknown to many who love her work. But Thompson, who is a writer as well as an actor (and wrote the screenplay for 2005’s _Nanny McPhee_), says that any _Poppins_ fan knows one thing about Travers: her complete devotion to her books, characters and audience. Her emotional complexities notwithstanding, Travers’ wariness about the _Mary Poppins_ movie was understandable. “There’s a tendency to cast aside a children’s author or children’s film and make it seem less important than those for an adult audience. Of course, I think it’s the other way around,” says Thompson. “You can get away with dropping the ball from time to time with adult audiences but children know. You’ve really got to do your best. Letting them down is a serious failure in your artistic integrity.” (**MORE**: [Walt Disney on the Cover of TIME in 1937](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19371227,00.html)) _Saving Mr. Banks_ is due in theaters Dec. 13, 2013. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7118354/exclusive-first-look-tom-hanks-and-emma-thompson-in-saving-mr-banks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7118354/exclusive-first-look-tom-hanks-and-emma-thompson-in-saving-mr-banks/"},"headline":"Exclusive First Look: Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson in 'Saving Mr. Banks'","datePublished":"2013-07-10T12:00:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-25T05:55:25.341Z","description":"Emma Thompson has taken on some difficult roles during her career, winning Oscars and numerous other awards for her performances in works based on classic...","url":"https://time.com/archive/7118354/exclusive-first-look-tom-hanks-and-emma-thompson-in-saving-mr-banks/","keywords":["Disney"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt92d4f8e7a70ad3e0/698a8ea5c9e9418431123161/smb_05582fd_r2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt92d4f8e7a70ad3e0/698a8ea5c9e9418431123161/smb_05582fd_r2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"SAVING MR. 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