Elisa Leonelli with Tom Hanks (c) HFPA 1999
As a Foreign Press Correspondent, I spoke with Tom Hanks many times through the years, and twice in 2020, about Greyhound and about News of the World directed by Paul Greengrass. I wrote an interview for the Italian magazine Best Streaming, where he said about the coronavirus pandemic: “Sure, it’s great to have a vaccine out, but we’re going to be living with this virus until the summertime. Just because some people are beginning to get the first of two inoculations, this is not going to be easy, we won’t be able to just stop by and grab the vaccine, and some people will not even show up to take it. There are very simple things that one can do, wear a mask, wash your hands, keep social distance and if you might have it, isolate. I don’t understand how your average person cannot have that sense of responsibility or empathy. Covid 19 has been a test of us all and there isn’t any doubt that some of us have not learned the lessons of the test.”
Thank you Tom for the sane words, and Happy New Year to all.