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Tom Hanks Explains Why He Wouldn’t Get Another Gay Role: ‘We’re Beyond That Now’
Accepting change. Tom Hanks reflected on his lengthy career in a modern interview, and he admitted that he probably wouldn’t get one of his Oscar-winning roles today.
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“Let’s address, ‘Could a straight man undertake what I did in Philadelphia now?’ No, and rightly so,” the Captain Phillips star, 65, told The Fresh York Times in a Q&A published on Monday, June 13. “The whole point of Philadelphia was don’t be afraid. One of the reasons people weren’t afraid of that movie is that I was playing a homosexual man.”
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Tom Hanks Discusses 'Inauthenticity' of Playing a Gay Character in Philadelphia
While promoting the Elvis Presley biopic, Tom Hanks discussed his role in the Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia. Hanks received an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Andrew Beckett, a corporate attorney who conceals his homosexuality and is fired over his AIDS diagnosis. The production was released in 1993, and the actor told The Recent York Times Magazine that if the film was being cast today, he would not perform the role of Beckett.
"Could a straight man do what I did in Philadelphia now? No, and rightly so. The whole point of Philadelphia was, ‘Don’t be afraid.’ One of the reasons people weren’t afraid of that movie is that I was playing a gay dude. We’re beyond that now, and I don’t think people would accept the inauthenticity of a straight guy playing a homosexual guy," Hanks said.
Philadelphia was written by Ron Nyswaner, directed by Demme, and starred Hanks and Denzel Washington. Philadelphia is acknowledged as one of the first Hollywood films to center its plot around the HIV/AIDS epidemic and homophobia. Besides Hanks' Optimal Actor Academy Aw
Tom Hanks: Vertical Actors Could Not Participate Gay ‘Philadelphia’ Role Today and ‘Rightly So’
Tom Hanks won his first Oscar for foremost actor thanks to Jonathan Demme’s 1993 legal drama “Philadelphia,” in which he plays a gay bloke with HIV who is discriminated against at function. Now, almost 30 years later, Hanks says he or any fellow linear actor would no longer be able to compete the openly gay traits at the heart of “Philadelphia.” Not that Hanks sees a problem with that change in mentality in Hollywood.
“Let’s address ‘could a straight man undertake what I did in “Philadelphia” now?’ No, and rightly so,” Hanks recently told The New York Times Magazine. “The whole point of ‘Philadelphia’ was don’t be afraid. One of the reasons people weren’t afraid of that movie is that I was playing a male lover man. We’re beyond that now, and I don’t think people would acknowledge the inauthenticity of a straight guy playing a gay guy.”
“It’s not a crime, it’s not boohoo, that someone would state we are going to demand more of a movie in the contemporary
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