“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 man.”
“Could a straight man do what I did in Philadelphia now? No, and rightly so,” Hanks said to The New York Times Magazine. In 1993, Tom Hanks won an Oscar for playing a gay man who was fired because of his AIDS status in Philadelphia, but now, he says if he was approached with the role today, he wouldn't take it. One of the best actors of his era is done playing gay.
