{"id":284032,"date":"2019-11-22T11:20:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T18:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1096203"},"modified":"2019-11-22T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T18:20:12","slug":"tom-hanks-had-night-sweats-after-taking-on-terrifying-mister-rogers-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/tom-hanks-had-night-sweats-after-taking-on-terrifying-mister-rogers-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks Had “Night Sweats” After Taking On “Terrifying” Mister Rogers Role"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom Hanks<\/a><\/strong> didn’t take the role of Fred Rogers<\/strong> lightly. In fact, it outright terrified him.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Gayle King on CBS This Morning<\/a><\/em>, the Oscar-winning actor shot down the idea that his famous nice guy demeanor<\/a> made playing Mister Rogers<\/a> an easy task.<\/p>\n

“It was terrifying,” he said of embodying the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood<\/em> star<\/a>. As he explained, “There’s no such thing as an easy role to do. The moment I said ‘yes,’ I began to have the night sweats.”<\/p>\n

According to the Forrest Gump <\/em>alum<\/a>, all roles are scary because, well, acting is hard! This character, however, had an added level of difficulty. “Look, I have played a lot of real people,” Hanks said plainly. “Fred was a very, very public persona. And everybody has an idea of what Fred is, what Fred was like, the mysteries behind Fred.” <\/p>\n

As he continued, “The terror that goes along with it is that you want to land in a place that people recognize as his true human behavior, whether you’re playing somebody who’s real, or somebody’s who’s not.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“If it’s not authentic,” the Toy Story <\/em>actor noted, “you’re actively lying in an artform that is supposed to be holding the mirror up to nature.” No wonder he had the night sweats.<\/p>\n

At another point in the interview, Hanks gave more insight into what he learned while filming It’s A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood<\/a><\/em>. As he shared, “Every person I talked to has said, ‘When you spoke to Fred, you felt like you were only person in the world who mattered to him.'” And for the 63-year-old, that was the key characteristic he had to find a way to convey.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Part of that, he quipped, meant, “Slowing down. Not interrupting people in the middle of them asking questions.”<\/p>\n

Overall, the overarching lesson was to lead with kindness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Sharing a moving story about the environment on set, Hanks said, “Everyday on the call sheet<\/a> there was an attached quote of Fred.’ And sometimes they were long, and sometimes they were very, very simple. And one was, ‘The three secrets of happiness are: Be kind, be kind and be kind.’ And you think, ‘Well, that’s mamby-pamby. That’s goody two shoes. No matter what your bent is, being kind means you giving everybody a fair shake. Being kind is just being open to a possibility of making a simple choice that makes a day a little bit better.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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