On Sept. 26 Robert Zemeckis' "The Walk" made its world premiere opening the New York Film Festival.

The new movie tells the extraordinary story of high-wire artist Philippe Petit who recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream of walking the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.

The movie has the incredible challenge of recreating the World Trade Center's Twin Towers through the use of visual effects. In a way, the movie is an hommage to the incredible work of Petit, but Zemeckis and his team also make sure to make tribute to the Twin Towers.

Throughout the film there is a nostalgia factor that is constantly referenced. At the end of the movie, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Petit states how his character's actions changed the way people saw the towers and how it redefined the history of the buildings.

It was also reminiscent in the final images of the movie, which was definitely paying tribute to the remarkable buildings and to the people who died on 9/11.

The nostalgia was definitely felt in the room during the press conference as the cast members and Zemeckis remembered their experience with the Twin Towers.

Gordon-Levitt recalled having been to the Twin Towers months before they were destroyed on 9/11. As he described it, "I actually went in the summer of 2001 to the top of the World Trade Center towers. I just moved to New York at that point because I went to Columbia starting in the fall of 2000. So, it was my first summer living in New York after my freshman year. It was touristy, but I wanted to do it. I remember it pretty distinctly. It felt more like being in the sky than it felt like being in a tall building."

Actors Ben Schwartz and James Badge Dale also described their experiences as they grew up in New York.

"I'm from New York so it's a piece of the landscape. When you think of New York, that's what it was for me," Schwartz said.

Schwartz also described being at the memorial pools and trying to imagine the distance of Petit's walk. He said, "I went to the Freedom Tower this trip, went inside, so I stood at the edge of one of the pools and went to see how far the walk would have been. And it was just incredible. It is so far and it seems so insane."

Badge Dale also noted, "I grew up on 20th between 9th and 10th and those towers were part of the fabric of my childhood. The fabric of New York city and for all of us who were there looking at them from a far was just part of who we are as a city."

The actor also revealed that he had a hard time going to the memorial because of what the towers meant for him. He said, "I couldn't bring myself to go to the memorial until after we did this film. And this year I went and I just can't tell you how proud I am to be a part of this film. And I believe what this film means for New York and for the memory of the Two Towers."

"The Walk" is slated for release on Oct. 2 in limited release before going wide.