Which is uncomfortable. The reality is, I'm not a threatening guy. I don't carry some massive rough and tumble thing. When I walk into a room, nobody fears me. The characters I play are not real stand-out flashy dudes.
Hanks even looks the part of the common guy.
He has a nice appearance, but with his undefined chin and a tall, thin head that seems to place his narrow eyes smack in the middle, he looks more like a friendly egghead than movie star. His dark curly hair is cut short, though certainly not as short as it was as a soldier in Saving Private Ryan or as the social misfit in Forrest Gump . The only bright touch comes from his plaid shirt. Hanks is at the peak of his career. Since the disaster of The Bonfire of the Vanities in 1990, one of several low points in what had been a roller-coaster career, his star has risen almost constantly.