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Tom Hanks, who recovered from Covid-19 earlier this year, has said he “has no respect” for people who decline to wear a mask in public during the pandemic.<\/p>\n
The actor and his wife Rita Wilson tested positive for coronavirus while filming in Australia in March.<\/p>\n
Many governments now recommend face coverings, but they are not mandatory in most places.<\/p>\n
Hanks said: “I don’t get it, I simply do not get it, it is literally the least you can do.”<\/p>\n
The actor was\u00a0speaking to the Associated Press<\/a>\u00a0about face coverings while promoting his latest film.<\/p>\n “If anybody wants to build up an argument about doing the least they can do, I wouldn’t trust them with a driver’s licence,” he said.<\/p>\n “I mean, when you drive a car, you’ve got to obey speed limits, you’ve got to use your turn signals [indicators], you’ve got to avoid hitting pedestrians. If you can’t do those three things, you shouldn’t be driving a car.<\/p>\n “If you can’t wear a mask and wash your hands and social distance, I’ve got no respect for you, man. I don’t buy your argument.”<\/p>\n EPA – Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson tested positive for coronavirus in March<\/p><\/div>\n The refusal of some members of the public to wear masks is a particular issue in the US, which leads the world in coronavirus deaths and infections.<\/p>\n US President Donald Trump had previously voiced his opposition to them, but he changed his tone last week,\u00a0telling Fox News he is “all for masks”.<\/a><\/p>\n Hanks is a two-time Oscar winner, taking home the best actor prize for both Philadelphia and Forrest Gump in the 1990s.<\/p>\n His new film, Greyhound, was originally due to be released in cinemas but will now be screened on Apple TV instead.<\/p>\n Many cinemas around the world remain closed to slow the spread of infections amid the pandemic, but they are now allowed to open in the UK.<\/p>\n “We are all heartbroken that this movie is not playing in cinemas,” Hanks told AFP. “But with that removed as a possibility, we were left with this as a reality.”<\/p>\n In another interview with Reuters, Hanks said Greyhound was made for “a big, massive, immersive experience that can really only come out when you’re in a movie theatre with at least 100 other people”.<\/p>\n But with the coronavirus pandemic, “we’ve got to roll with these punches” and put it online for home viewing, he said.<\/p>\n GETTY IMAGES – Tom Hanks was named the recipient of the Cecil B DeMille award at the Golden Globes earlier this year<\/p><\/div>\n In the movie, Hanks plays Commander Ernest Krause, a naval officer embarking on his first mission of World War Two.<\/p>\n Hanks also wrote the screenplay, adapting it from the 1955 CS Forester novel The Good Shepherd.<\/p>\n In his three-star review of the film,\u00a0Empire’s Ian Freer said<\/a>\u00a0the film was “a serious, well-intentioned slice of WWII naval history full of compelling detail and good action but lacking the dimensions and dynamics to make you truly feel it”.<\/p>\n Digital Spy’s Gabriella Geisinger noted:<\/a>\u00a0“Greyhound really suffers from the small screen. It is meant to be a naval epic, whose high-seas stakes and battles, with gunfire through the dark as sea-spray washes aboard, is made less visceral on a small screen in your relatively-well-lit living room.”<\/p>\n “Greyhound is an efficient, satisfying war film,”\u00a0wrote Kevin Crust in the Los Angeles Times.<\/a>\u00a0“In that regard, it’s a fresh telling of familiar elements, buoyed by the powerfully understated performances.”<\/p>\n He added: “It’s understandable that Sony opted to go the digital route in selling Greyhound “to Apple TV+, but it would have been an especially good film to experience on the big screen in an auditorium.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/111230461_eed71d9b-7130-458d-b210-593e09ca0059.jpg\")
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