Tom Hanks is "against" reading a censored book. Hanks, 66, touched on cancel culture while promoting his upcoming novel, "The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece." The "Forrest Gump" actor is not on board with someone else deciding what he should deem offensive. "I’m of the opinion that we’re all grown-ups here.
Let’s have faith in our own sensibilities as opposed to having somebody decide what we may or may not be offended by," Hanks told NBC News. "Let me decide what I am offended by and what I’m not offended by.
I would be against reading any book from any era that says ‘abridged due to modern sensitivities.'" Hanks was responding to the current trend of editing books to not be offensive in modern times.
Ian Fleming’s ribald James Bond books have been rewritten to remove a handful of racial references in order to fit modern day thought, according to reports published in February.
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