Tom Hanks Thinks He Couldn't Play A Gay Man Now Because He's Not Gay

[mudwhistle]

Being Woke is making Hollywood go down the road of insanity.

Tom Hanks says he couldn’t play gay role today like he did in ‘Philadelphia’

“Let’s address ‘Could a straight man do what I did in Philadelphia now?’” Hanks asked. “No, and rightly so.”

nypost.com

You have to stay in your lane.
You have to be Hispanic to play a Hispanic.
You have to be Gay to play a homosexual.
You cannot be something that you are not.

Excuse me....I thought that was what acting meant. I thought it meant being something you are not. Playing a part used to be what acting was. Your ability to change your character. Now you're not allowed to be Latin unless you're actually Latin. Tom Hanks claims he can't play the part that won him an Oscar because he's not gay.

 

[rightwinger]

Does that mean you have to be a retard to play Forest Gump?

 

[Polishprince]

Hanks played a developmentally disabled individual in Forest Gump, so I guess that was ok?

 

[hadit]

Can't men be women and women be men? And I guess that means "Will and Grace" needs to be panned now, since Eric Mccormack isn't gay.

 

[rightwinger]

Rock Hudson played straight men

 

[hadit]

Being Woke is making Hollywood go down the road of insanity.

Tom Hanks says he couldn’t play gay role today like he did in ‘Philadelphia’

“Let’s address ‘Could a straight man do what I did in Philadelphia now?’” Hanks asked. “No, and rightly so.”

nypost.com

You have to stay in your lane.
You have to be Hispanic to play a Hispanic.
You have to be Gay to play a homosexual.
You cannot be something that you are not.

Excuse me....I thought that was what acting meant. I thought it meant being something you are not. Playing a part used to be what acting was. Your ability to change your character. Now you're not allowed to be Latin unless you're actually Latin. Tom Hanks claims he can't play the part that won him an Oscar because he's not gay.

I agree. The whole point of acting is to make the audience suspend their disbelief and actually believe the actor IS the character. That's why they get typecast and have a hard time branching out into different roles once they're successful playing one.

 

[hadit]

Rock Hudson played straight men

And very believably. The whole thing is absurd.

 

[martybegan]

Does that mean you have to be a retard to play Forest Gump?

Forest Gump wasn't full retard.

 

[Polishprince]

Rock Hudson played straight men

Raquel Welch played Transgender Myra Breckenridge, although she is not a tranny herself

 

[Slade3200]

Being Woke is making Hollywood go down the road of insanity.

Tom Hanks says he couldn’t play gay role today like he did in ‘Philadelphia’

“Let’s address ‘Could a straight man do what I did in Philadelphia now?’” Hanks asked. “No, and rightly so.”

nypost.com

You have to stay in your lane.
You have to be Hispanic to play a Hispanic.
You have to be Gay to play a homosexual.
You cannot be something that you are not.

Excuse me....I thought that was what acting meant. I thought it meant being something you are not. Playing a part used to be what acting was. Your ability to change your character. Now you're not allowed to be Latin unless you're actually Latin. Tom Hanks claims he can't play the part that won him an Oscar because he's not gay.

Nobody HAS to do anything. But when LGBTQ issues are at the forefront of conversation and minority groups like that are underrepresented, Hanks is simply stating his opinion. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[Circe]

Hanks played a developmentally disabled individual in Forest Gump, so I guess that was ok?

But not now. Weirdos do require now that only weirdos play perversion people. And I suppose brain-damaged or retarded persons have to play their counterparts! I remember when Harrison Ford played a brain-injured man in a movie; it was interesting. The character gradually recovered, but it changed his life. And now actors are gracefully giving up roles, knowing that if they persevere, they'll be blackballed and cancelled forever.

So of course then the movie can't be made.

 

[martybegan]

Nobody HAS to do anything. But when LGBTQ issues are at the forefront of conversation and minority groups like that are underrepresented, Hanks is simply stating his opinion. Nothing wrong with that.

No, he's being pressured into that opinion.

 

[martybegan]

Raquel Welch played Transgender Myra Breckenridge, although she is not a tranny herself

Matt Damon played someone with an IQ over 75 in The Martian.

 

[Polishprince]

Nobody HAS to do anything. But when LGBTQ issues are at the forefront of conversation and minority groups like that are underrepresented, Hanks is simply stating his opinion. Nothing wrong with that.

Since when are Homos "underrepresented" in the movie business?

 

[Slade3200]

No, he's being pressured into that opinion.

You can’t know that so why act like an ass by pretending like you can read his mind.

 

[mudwhistle]

Hanks played a developmentally disabled individual in Forest Gump, so I guess that was ok?

Only the mentally-challenged can play the mentally-challenged.

 

[Slade3200]

Since when are Homos "underrepresented" in the movie business?

Since always. Our society has been very oppressive towards gays for generations. It was only recently that they were allowed to get married.

 

[martybegan]

You can’t know that so why act like an ass by pretending like you can read his mind.

We all know it, you just can't admit it.

Obvious genuflecting to the lefty party line is obvious.

 

[martybegan]

Since always. Our society has been very oppressive towards gays for generations. It was only recently that they were allowed to get married.

To be fair it's only recently that they wanted to get married.

 

[mudwhistle]

Nobody HAS to do anything. But when LGBTQ issues are at the forefront of conversation and minority groups like that are underrepresented, Hanks is simply stating his opinion. Nothing wrong with that.

I think he's just trying to assure that the woke left doesn't come after him.
Nobody wants the FBI raiding your house...or a bunch of assholes protesting outside your home.