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Tom Hanks, 65, has a singular perspective about his Oscar-winning efficiency in 1993’s Philadelphia. In an interview with The New York Times Magazine, the acclaimed actor admitted that he couldn’t play the function of Andy Beckett, an overtly homosexual lawyer battling AIDS, at the moment. “And rightly so,” Tom instructed the publication. “The entire level of ‘Philadelphia’ was don’t be afraid. One of many causes folks weren’t afraid of that film is that I used to be enjoying a homosexual man. We’re past that now, and I don’t assume folks would settle for the inauthenticity of a straight man enjoying a homosexual man.”
Tom continued, “It’s not against the law, it’s not boohoo, that somebody would say we’re going to demand extra of a film within the trendy realm of authenticity. Do I sound like I’m preaching? I don’t imply to.” Tom received his very first Oscar for Philadelphia on the 66th Academy Awards. The movie, which additionally starred Denzel Washington, Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas, and Jason Robards, was one of many first main Hollywood movies to the touch on homophobia and AIDS.
Tom was additionally requested about 1994’s Forrest Gump which earned him his second Oscar for Finest Actor. He described Forrest Gump and Philadelphia as “well timed films,” including, “on the time, that you just may not have the ability to make now.” He additionally defended Forrest Gump and stated it deserved the Finest Image Oscar over fashionable films like Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction.
“The issue with ‘Forrest Gump’ is it made a billion {dollars},” Tom stated. “If we’d simply made a profitable film, Bob [Zemeckis] and I might have been geniuses. However as a result of we made a wildly profitable film, we had been diabolical geniuses. Is it a foul drawback to have? No, however there’s books of the best films of all time, and ‘Forrest Gump’ doesn’t seem as a result of, oh, it’s this sappy nostalgia fest.”
Tom has not received an Oscar since Forrest Gump. His subsequent main movie function is in Baz Luhrmann‘s Elvis, the place he performs Colonel Tom Parker, the former carnival worker-turned music supervisor, and promoter who helped uncover Elvis Presley. Austin Butler performs the “King of Rock And Roll.”
