Tom Hanks has said that as a straight man he could not now make Philadelphia, in which he played a gay man who is dying of Aids.
Speaking to the New York Times magazine to promote the new Elvis Presley biopic, Hanks called both Philadelphia – for which he won an Oscar in 1993 – and Forrest Gump – for which he repeated the trick a year later – as “timely movies, at the time, that you might not be able to make now”.
