Two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks admits he’s been involved in many questionable projects, but this one tops the list of worst decisions he’s made during his acting career. Find out which film is, according to him, the worst of his career, and even one of the worst in the history of cinema…
By 1990, Tom Hanks was best known for his comedic roles, with his final big screen titles being Turner and Hooch And The Suburbs. When he was invited to star in a film directed by Brian De Palma and based on the famous novel by Tom Wolfe, The pyre of the vanitiesso he accepted without hesitation and with great joy.
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The beginning of a nightmare for Tom Hanks
In the film, he plays Sherman McCoy, a big Wall Street broker who earns millionaire’s commissions. His life changes abruptly when, on his way to Manhattan with his mistress Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith), he takes a wrong turn and ends up in the Bronx.
It is in the famous New York neighborhood that he ends up running over a black man, which is the starting point of his fall and also the beginning of the meteoric rise of Peter Fallow (Bruce Willis), an unknown journalist. .
Years later, during an interview with Oprah Winfrey, the actor finally spoke about his role in the film: “This is one of the most mediocre films ever made. And yet, if I hadn’t experienced it, I would have missed out on something precious. From the start, this film was a fascinating undertaking. He was more…
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