Tom Hanks, who won an Osr for his role as a gay man wh AIDS the film “Philalphia,” said that if the film were ma today, a straight actor wouldn’t be st that role, and “rightly so.”
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TOM HANKS SAYS ‘PHILALPHIA’ WOULDN’T GET MA TODAY WH A STRAIGHT ACTOR A GAY ROLE
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