Tom Hanks

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Anonymous wrote:So just to be clear, this is NOT about why for such a great guy he's got such a wonky son or about that weird niece who went on a reality show and behaved poorly recently?

Wow, way to derail things and try to throw attention elsewhere, PP. No one cares much about his son or this niece whose existence was unknown to me until this moment. Even a great guy has, you know, relatives, as most of us do. And like us, he has zero control over his adult relatives or how anyone else perceives them.

It is sort of interesting how his kids with his first wife are normal, successful adults while his kids with his second wife are more troubled.

It is sort of interesting how people love to opine that other people whom they've never met are "normal" and "successful" etc. You have no idea. Not sure if that's you who posted a second time with the same idea here too. Why are his kids relevant at all to his work? They aren't. So it's not interesting after all.

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Anonymous wrote:You can have a big ego and still be a decent human being. To succeed in many professions having a big ego is necessary. I’ve never heard of him being nasty or cruel to people.

+1 and not just about Hanks but about most anyone trying to make a full-time living in a performing arts field. It takes a certain amount of "ego" and belief in oneself even to get through the early years of rejected auditions and so-so projects. I think people here say "ego" as a 100 percent negative and conflate it with "puffed-up diva behaviors" but it's not necessarily that. How actors, musicians, etc. treat others is what matters, even if there's a big ego as well.

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Anonymous wrote:His first marriage was a mess. He was about 20-21 when his 24-25 year old girlfriend Samantha (who picked him up earlier, unclear when, perhaps 2-3 years earlier) got pregnant with their baby, then they got married. He shouldn't have cheated, but they shouldn't have gotten started on those conditions, and his first wife should have been more responsible about starting it, as she was 4 years older than a very young adult Tom when they got together.

I think Tom Hanks is probably a pretty good guy, but the timeline makes this much messier.

Hanks eldest child, Colin, was born in 1977.
He married Colin's mom, Samantha Lewes, in 1978.
He met Rita Wilson for the first time in 1981.
His second child with Lewes was born in 1982.
He did a movie with Wilson in 1985.
He and Lewes divorced in 1987.
Hanks and Wilson married in 1988.

While Hanks was quite young when he met Lewes, they were together for 10 years and married for 9, and had two kids together. That's long enough to get your shit together and makes the age difference between them far less significant by the time and and Wilson started seeing each other. And the idea that Hanks and Wilson only started dating once Hanks and Lewes were separated is.... unlikely, given the timeline.

Hanks seems like a really nice guy, I've never heard a bad word about his behavior on set, he is kind to fans, and his wife and kids (from both marriages) seem to really love and appreciate him. He's obviously not a snake. But he's not some kind of saint either. He made mistakes. He did some questionable stuff and probably betrayed his first wife and his kids from that marriage on some level. He likely took the cowards way out to some degree. It happens. Doesn't mean you need to hate him or stop watching his movies, but it's a good reminder that NO ONE is perfect, no relationship is perfect, life is always more complex than people want it to be. The fact that his younger sons are sometimes pretty entitled and questionable illustrates this as well. Life is complicated, even for Tom Hanks.

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Anonymous wrote:He cheated on his first wife with his current wife.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! ugh

Some say ha also cheated on Rita.

"Some say"? Glad you have such a reliable, solid source, PP!

Isn’t that the case with all gossip?

Oh, I forgot, tabloid magazines, IG, tiktok, twitter are much more accurate.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s a good actor, but he seems to have a big ego. His nice guy act doesn’t seem authentic. He seems like he needs attention and accolades.

His son with Rita is a train wreck. His older kids from his prior wife seem better educated and more grounded.

Agree with this.

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Anonymous wrote:He cheated on his first wife with his current wife.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! ugh

The world and people suck! OMG, I thought he was a good one.

Can people not change.
He can be a ”good one” and have made a mistake 40 years ago.

Look, he plays a "good one" but if you watch his temper tantrums and theatrics you can see in reality he is an a... In today's world you simply can't hide it any longer with cameras coming at you at all times. I can't look at most of his movies now without seeing some of those images, sad really, he was one of my favorite character actors. I truly hate the whole camera in every hand these days, it has ruined so much.