Come on Tom, you’re acting daft!

TOM HANKS says he wouldn’t now take on his Oscarwinning role in Philadelphia playing a lawyer dying from Aids, as audiences no longer ‘accept the inauthenticity of a straight guy playing a gay guy’.

So he wouldn’t have played a soldier in Saving Private Ryan as he’s never been in the army.

Or his role in Cast Away, as he’s never been marooned — and we’d never have heard him telling his only friend in the film, his volleyball, ‘Don’t worry Wilson, I’ll do all the paddling, you just hang on’ . . . as it drifted off.

Nor would the volleyball have sold for £ 250,000, or the movie taken more than £300 million at the Box Office.