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Tom Hanks: Straight Actors Could Not Play Queer ‘Philadelphia’ Role Today and ‘Rightly So’
Tom Hanks won his first Oscar for top actor thanks to Jonathan Demme’s 1993 legal drama “Philadelphia,” in which he plays a same-sex attracted man with HIV who is discriminated against at perform. Now, almost 30 years later, Hanks says he or any fellow vertical actor would no longer be competent to play the openly gay ethics 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 Recent York Times Magazine. “The whole show of ‘Philadelphia’ was don’t be terrified. One of the reasons people weren’t afraid of that movie is that I was playing a gay bloke. We’re beyond that now, and I don’t think people would accept the inauthenticity of a straight guy playing a gay guy.”
“It’s not a crime, it’s not boohoo, that someone would say we are going to insist more of a movie in the modern
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 film was released in 1993, and the actor told The Recent York Times Magazine that if the film was being cast today, he would not compete 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 male. We’re beyond that now, and I don’t think people would accept the inauthenticity of a straight guy playing a same-sex attracted guy," Hanks said.
Philadelphia was written by Ron Nyswaner, directed by Demme, and starred Hanks and Denzel Washington. Philadelphia is established as one of the first Hollywood films to center its plot around the HIV/AIDS epidemic and homophobia. Besides Hanks' Leading Actor Academy Aw
Tom Hanks Explains Why He Wouldn’t Take Another Same-sex attracted Role: ‘We’re Beyond That Now’
Accepting change. Tom Hanks reflected on his lengthy career in a recent interview, and he admitted that he probably wouldn’t take one of his Oscar-winning roles today.
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“Let’s address, ‘Could a straight man do what I did in Philadelphia now?’ No, and rightly so,” the Captain Phillips star, 65, told The New York Times in a Q&A published on Monday, June 13. “The whole point of Philadelphia was don’t be scared. One of the reasons people weren’t afraid of that movie is that I was playing a gay man.”
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