‘That Thg You Do!’ 21st Anniversary: Tom Hanks’ Gay Subplot — Watch – IndieWire

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• ‘THAT THG YOU DO!’ TWENTY-ONE YEARS LATER: THE GAY SUBPLOT THAT NEVER MA INTO THEATERS
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
• TOM HANKS: STRAIGHT ACTORS COULD NOT PLAY GAY ‘PHILALPHIA’ ROLE TODAY AND ‘RIGHTLY SO’

‘THAT THG YOU DO!’ TWENTY-ONE YEARS LATER: THE GAY SUBPLOT THAT NEVER MA INTO THEATERS

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Tom Hanks won his first Osr for bt actor thanks to Jonathan Demme’s 1993 legal drama “Philalphia, ” which he plays a gay man wh HIV who is discrimated agast at work. Now, almost 30 years later, Hanks says he or any fellow straight actor would no longer be able to play the openly gay character at the heart of “Philalphia. One of the reasons people weren’t aaid of that movie is that I was playg a gay man.

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TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS

TOM HANKS: STRAIGHT ACTORS COULD NOT PLAY GAY ‘PHILALPHIA’ ROLE TODAY AND ‘RIGHTLY SO’