Tom Hanks Doesn’t Think He Could Ever Play A Bad Guy

If they should ever reboot The Joker, yet again, you can count Tom Hanks out of the running to star because wanton cruelty and maliciousness just aren’t in his DNA. According to a New York Times interview (via Page Six), Tom doesn’t think he could ever convincingly play a bad guy. But there is another Heath Ledger role he could play. Should they ever remake Casanova, only in his later years (Tom is 63 after all), he could absolutely pull it off because Tom says his greatest strength is the art of seduction. Talk to me, daddy. I’m listening!

Page Six reports:

Tom Hanks admitted he uses his kindness to his advantage.

“I realize, and I used over and over again, the ability to seduce a room, seduce a group of people, and that it started off when I was very young as a self-defense mechanism but then turned into a manipulative kind of thing, because I didn’t realize that I was as good at it as I was,” Hanks, 63, recently told the New York Times.

He continued, “And part of that is I am not malevolent. I’m not mysterious. You’re not going to get a huge amount of anger out of me or anything like that. I’m not coming in to dominate a room, but I am coming in to seduce it somehow.”

Henry Winkler begs to differ, sir! The person who interviewed Tom for NYT spent a lot of time hemming and hawing about how hard it was going to be to get an interesting story about Tom because he’s so nice. That person has not been doing their homework. Henry’s sitting on a landmine that could blow up Tom’s entire career, and he’s just waiting for the phone to ring. I guess Tom has a different perspective on whatever it was that transpired between them on the set of Turner & Hooch, because Tom insists he’s a pussy cat.

“I recognized in myself a long time ago that I don’t instill fear in anybody,” he said. “Now, that’s different than being nice, you know? I think I have a cache of mystery. But it’s not one of malevolence.”

Therefore, Hanks feels he can’t play the villain.

“It’s because I never get them, because bad guys, by and large, require some degree of malevolence that I don’t think I can fake,” he said.

So if Henry should ever come out and say that Tom slammed a door once, don’t believe a word of it!

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