Tom Hanks wouldn’t play gay lead in Philadelphia today: ‘We’re beyond that now’

Tom Hanks wouldn’t play gay lead in Philadelphia today: ‘We’re beyond that now’

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Tom Hanks says he wouldn’t play the Oscar-winning gay lead in Philadelphia today as the world is “beyond” straight actors playing LGBTQ+ characters. Hanks, 65, played Andrew Beckett in the 1994 film, a gay lawyer living with HIV who sued his employer for firing him over his status. It was a pathbreaking...

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