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Hanks and his wife, actress and singer Rita
Wilson, disclosed in March that they had tested positive for the
coronavirus while in Australia for a film shoot.
"At the very least, three tiny things (are) in everybody's
wheelhouse, if you choose to do them," Hanks, 63, said in a
recent interview with Reuters Television. "Wear a mask, wash
your hands, social distance. If you can't do that, I don't have
much respect for you."Hanks, a two-time Oscar winner for
"Philadelphia" and "Forrest Gump," compared the measures to
steps that drivers take to operate a car safely. "If you drive a
car, you've got to use your turn signal, not drive too fast and
avoid pedestrians," he said.
"Whether or not we like it, we're all in this together," he
added.
The United States leads the world in coronavirus deaths and
infections.
Due to the pandemic, Hanks' new film, "Greyhound," streams on
Apple TV+ starting on Friday rather than playing in movie
theaters. Many cinemas around the world remain closed to help
slow the spread of infections.
Hanks said "Greyhound" was made for "a big, massive, immersive
experience that can really only come out when you're in a movie
theater with at least 100 other people." But with the COVID-19
pandemic, "we've got to roll with these punches" and put it
online for home viewing, he said.
In the movie, Hanks plays Commander Ernest Krause, a naval
officer embarking on his first mission of World War Two. Hanks
also wrote the screenplay, adapting it from the 1955 C.S.
Forester novel "The Good Shepherd."
(Reporting by Rollo Ross; Writing by Lisa Richwine; Editing by
Peter Cooney)
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