In full promotion of his very first novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, Tom Hanks rebels against the rewriting of classics with content deemed offensive. The American actor affirms that making politically correct an old work is part of an infantilizing logic.
In an interview granted to the BBC, the comedian said he was “of the opinion that we are all great people. Let’s have faith in our acumen and our intelligence instead of letting someone decide what might or might not offend us”.
In 2020, Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Niggers was also reworked and renamed because it was deemed negrophobic. Across the Channel, Roald Dahl’s novels have been rewritten. The author’s heirs called on “inclusive readers” to review the novelist’s work.
Tom Hanks is formal: “Let me decide what offends me and what doesn’t offend me.” And to continue that he would not read “any book, whatever the register, which would be marked ” Abridged due to modern sensibilities ”.”
The American actor published a novel on the set of a multimillion-dollar superhero film on May 9. He discusses the changes that have taken place in the United States since the Second World War. On the big screen, Tom Hanks shares the poster with Scarlett Johannson of Wes Anderson’s next film, Asteroid City, which will be presented at the Cannes Film Festival on May 23 before a scheduled release in theaters in France on June 21.
