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Tom Hanks Wouldn't Take Philadelphia Role Now If He Were Offered It
Hollywood has been celebrating straight actors playing LGBTQ+ characters for decades from Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain, to Hilary Swank in Boys Don't Cry, to even Hugh Grant in Maurice. Multiple actors have won awards, even Oscars, for playing such parts. Tom Hanks won his first Oscar in 1994 for playing gay and shunned lawyer Andrew Beckett in Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia.