✅ Why Tom Hanks took on role of Mister Rogers after initially turning it down

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✍  Tom Hanks plays Fred Rogers in the highly anticipated movie "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood," but the Academy Award-winning actor said he initially turned down the part. Hanks spoke with "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King about how director Marielle Heller changed his mind. Heller is known for the movies "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" and the Oscar-nominated "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" Hanks met her at a birthday party for his grandchildren the same week that a New York Times article about women filmmakers came out. "We were chitchatting," Hanks said. "She says, 'I'm a director.' I said, 'Oh, I was just read this interesting article in The New York Times about female directors. Have you seen it?' And she looked at me and she said, 'I'm in it.' I said —"  "Oops," King said. "Please, let me remove my shoe from my mouth," Hanks said. "I chatted with her there, and I had heard about her film 'Diary of a Teenage Girl,' …  and I immediately took a look at it and said, 'This lady's go ...
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