Posted on 11/17/2016 9:27:48 AM PST by AU72
In what is certainly sure to draw ire from some, if not many, in the Hollywood community, two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks opted for grace and class when speaking about President-elect Donald Trump. After a week of hysteria-laden open letters and Twitter rants from entertainment industry liberals like Aaron Sorkin and Joss Whedon, Hanks' calm demeanor and response really stood out. The actor was being honored at the Museum of Modern Art in New York when he offered a refreshing dose of perspective.
We are going to be all right because we constantly get to tell the world who we are. We constantly get to define ourselves as American. We do have the greatest country in the world. We move at a slow pace. We have the greatest country in the world because we are always moving towards a more perfect union. That journey never ceases, it never stops. Sometimes, to quote a Springsteen song, it’s “one step forward, two steps back,” but we still aggregately move forward. We, who are a week into wondering what the hell just happened, will continue to move forward. We have to choose to do so, but we will move forward because if we do not move forward, what is to be said of us?
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Then Hanks said something that would probably be career suicide for a less established actor:
"This is the United States of America. We'll go on. There's great like-minded people out there who are Americans first and Republicans or Democrats second," Hanks told THR. "I hope the president-elect does such a great job that I vote for his re-election in four years."
While it is sad that kind, patriotic words like this stand out so much because vitriol is the norm, it's also comforting to know that not everyone has lost his or her mind. Many of Hanks' contemporaries truly believe that America is now in the midst of a possibly apocalyptic existential crisis. That's largely based on a reality that's prone to hysteria because it doesn't get much exposure to people who think differently.
Hanks' real world is a bit more...real. He lives in the same place and works in the same industry as Sorkin and the others, but has somehow managed to notice the America beyond the Hollywood bubble. He is also one of the most accomplished and respected actors of his generation. Maybe, just maybe, others will pause and take his words to heart.
Maybe.
I met Tom Hanks briefly once in 2000. He drove a PT cruiser down to Pacific Palisades from Malibu to likely work out at the Pacific athletic club on sunset and pch. Besides the pt cruiser he was OK. He did have the windows tinted.
I bet he is still friends with Gary Sinise, and probably just can’t get into the whole “hate all Republicans” trend because of that.
“All DeNiro can do is play a hard-ass punk in his movies. No range whatsoever.”
Obviously you’ve never watched “The King of Comedy”.
I always had some degree of hope for Hanks.
He, along with Mel Gibson, Clint Eastwood; don’t need big Hollywood approval for freedom of expression.
I love that....always brings a laugh!!
Now he was pretty good in that and so was Jerry Lewis.
Of late De Niro has done a lot of crap movies, I guess for a paycheck. The only one I have seen lately was The Intern and it was only semi-okay.
It made $2.5M at the box office. Apparently I am not the only one that never watched it.
This is the same guy who said he was first against the klinton rape and then got beat up and said he would donate more to klinton’s legal fund. So give him a day and he’ll be back to calling Trump a racist.
Good for Hanks.
This is the inner John Adams speaking from within him (as one of the producers of the mini-series).
What sane person would hope that the President will fall on his face?
I kept hoping 0bozo would do well but he failed us over, and over...
Hanks has always been pretty even-keeled.
Here’s why: Hanks—despite his support for Democratic Party politics—knows that he has a reputation to preserve as one of the best actors in Hollywood. He doesn’t want to ruin it by making ridiculous remarks like what Lena Dunham, Paul Schrader or Joss Whedon did....
My aunt is a very minor actor and producer. bit parts in movies and has produced a few. she got into it through a connection to her nephew who is connected to the movie industry as intermediate player . she is conservative and supports trump though she would of rather of seen some one else win the primary. according to her when you get away from the actors director and producers. you start having more conservative thought by those that work the set. most of those that are conservative keep there mouths shut because all that it takes to be black balled from working a set is one word from a liberal. so people just keep there mouths shut because a small group of liberals will terrorize al the technical crew over there political beliefs. she has seen both min or actor and crew agree with a big name actor in public but in private say that they just did not want to lose there ability to work for not agreeing with that actor or director.
That’s because he was probably talking with Clint and hanks grew a brain unlike some libs.
Clint directed him in Sully and Clint’s rightwing mentality rubbed off on him..
Count on it, much to the dismay of the Dems.
Sully was an excellent movie.
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