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Why You’ll Never See Tom Hanks Playing A Villain · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Tom Hanks is playing
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Speaker 1: the most iconic role of his career in A Beautiful
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Speaker 1: Day in the Neighborhood Mr Fred Rogers, who's almost definitely
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Speaker 1: also the nicest. But Mr Rogers is just one of
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Speaker 1: several likable, not lovable roles Tom has tackled over the years.
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Speaker 1: In fact, can you even remember Tom playing the villain?
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Speaker 1: The answer is no, because he never really has. He's
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Speaker 1: played guys with a bit more questionable characteristics than others,
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Speaker 1: but nobody without a good heart. Tom realized he doesn't
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Speaker 1: really have it in him to play a scoundrel. He
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Speaker 1: tells The New York Times. I recognized in myself a
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Speaker 1: long time ago that I don't instill fear in anybody.
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Speaker 1: Now that's different than being nice. I think I have
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Speaker 1: a bit of mystery, but it's not malevolent. I never
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Speaker 1: play a bad guy because I never understand them. Bad guys,
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Speaker 1: by and large, requires some degree of malevolence, and I
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Speaker 1: don't think I can fake. Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
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Speaker 1: is out in November twenty second. That's direct from Hollywood