Zack Teperman is the father of a 2-year-old daughter, and he reached out to Tom Hanks to get the two-time Oscar winners thoughts on the classic “high-five, down low, too slow” bit.
Speaking with TMZ, Teperman says he asked Hanks at what age he thought it was appropriate to pull his hand away from his daughter for the “too slow” move.
He included a photo of him and his daughter performing a high-five. As he told TMZ, Hanks sent a reply, a two-page letter typed on one of his beloved typewriters.
Hanks, in fact, has a whole system in place for how and when to introduce the time-tested dad trick. “First the child gets the High part right.