This morning, Tom Hanks appeared on Good Morning America to promote his latest movie Cloud Atlas. On the show, Elizabeth Vargas shows a clip of one of Hanks’s multiple characters and asks him to speak in the character’s respective accent. But Vargas was not prepared for the slip up Hanks made in front of a live national audience. Two words: F-Bomb.

To be clear, Tom Hanks is a respectable person. He’s a two-time Academy Award winner, an environmental activist, a same-sex marriage advocate, and a proponent of NASA’s manned space program. However, even the most revered of people occasionally drop a cuss or two on live T.V.

Hanks precedes the gaffe by telling Vargas that along with his foreign dialect come “mostly swear words.” Perhaps sometimes veteran actors have trouble breaking character.

Both Hanks’s and Vargas’s reactions are priceless. They both keel over in their chairs, hands over mouths, and make multiple apologies to the audience.

You can see Hanks drop the F-bomb right here:

His little accident may have overshadowed the entire interview, which was held as a promotion for Cloud Atlas due out on October 26, but that’s okay.

In Cloud Atlas, Hanks stars alongside Oscar winner Halle Berry, Oscar Winner Jim Broadbent, Oscar winner Susan Sarandon, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess , and Hugh Grant. Based on the novel by David Mitchell, the screenplay was written by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski siblings (who also co-wrote and co-directed The Martix, so you know Cloud Atlas is going to be, if nothing else, trippy). Movie aggregator website IMDB bills the synopsis as

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

Got to love Tom Hanks. Not only is he hilarious in parodies on Saturday Night Live or the Jimmy Kimmel Show but he playfully laughs at himself and shrugs it off. But still, I got to wonder if Wilson would approve.