Tom Hanks can use familiarity to his advantage. That's not to say he always plays the same character. Hanks delivered a wonderful, thoroughly realized performance as Mr.
Rogers in last year's A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood but a history of on-screen decency meant he didn't have to work as hard as, say, Tom Hardy to pass as the nicest guy in the world.
Even when Hanks plays against type — as with his deft turn as a charismatic tech mogul in the otherwise dire thriller The Circle -- he draws on past performances, if only to twist them.
We see Tom Hanks and we make some assumptions based on past experience.That's especially helpful in a film in which we never learn that much about the character he's playing, like Apple TV+'s Greyhound..
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