Tom Hanks, who won an Oscar for his role as a gay man with AIDS in the film “Philadelphia,” said that if the film were made today, a straight actor wouldn’t be cast in that role, and “rightly so.”
Tom Hanks, who won an Oscar for his role as a gay man with AIDS in the film"Philadelphia," said that if the film were made today, a straight actor wouldn't be cast in that role, and"rightly so."
The"Elvis" actor reflected on the role in an interview this week with the New York Times' David Marchese. The journalist asked Hanks about two of his most famous films -- 1993's"Philadelphia" and 1994's"Forrest Gump," in which he plays a character with undefined intellectual disabilities. Hanks called both films"timely movies, at the time, that you might not be able to make now.
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