News Of The World star Helena Zengel: I didn’t know Tom Hanks was a big deal

Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel in News Of The World (Bruce W Talamon/Universal Pictures/Netflix/PA)

The young star of new western News Of The World has described meeting co-star Tom Hanks for the first time, saying she did not realise he was “a real big deal”.

Helena Zengel, 12, has landed Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award nominations for her role as a girl on the Texan frontier in 1870, who speaks no English and who has been living with Native Americans before being taken from them.