Extracting a specific file from a large container permanently

I have a VERY large tar.gz archive (~ 50 GB) and I am wondering if tar can skip processing N number of bytes or something, or at least force tar to start reading from the end of the file, reading instead it from the start.

Of course I can do tar xvf archive.tar.gz path/to/file

, but this command will execute forever, so I was hoping to find a faster way to do it.

Thank.