tested positive for the coronavirus in mid-March, a development that drove home the ubiquity of the virus at a time when it seemed like an abstraction.
While the couple recovered and don’t have lingering effects, Hanks said the state of affairs in the U.S. is not especially encouraging, though he did not go after individual political leaders or institutions.
Rather, he described the letdown as societal.“The idea of doing one’s part should be so simple,” he said. “It’s such a small thing. … It’s a mystery to me how somehow that has been wiped out of what should be ingrained in us all.”The actor, who turns 64 on Thursday, has been promoting “Greyhound,” the World War II submarine movie he wrote and stars in, which will premiere Friday on.