Tom Hanks says he couldn’t play gay role today ‘and rightly so’ - The Guardian

The actor has said that neither Philadelphia nor Forrest Gump, for which he won Oscars in the 90s, would be made in a ‘modern realm of authenticity’

Tom Hanks has said that as a straight man he could not now make Philadelphia, in which he played a gay man who is dying of Aids. Speaking to the New York Times magazine to promote the new Elvis Pres… [+1713 chars]

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