On March 11, one among Hollywood’s greatest stars, Tom Hanks, announced that he and his spouse Rita Wilson had contracted the novel coronavirus
On March 11, one among Hollywood’s greatest stars, Tom Hanks, announced that he and his spouse Rita Wilson had contracted the novel coronavirus whereas taking pictures Baz Luhrmann’s untitled Elvis Presley movie in Australia.
In a message posted publicly on March 11, Hanks was his typical upbeat self. ”Good day, people,” he wrote. “Rita and I are down right here in Australia. We felt a bit drained, like we had colds, and a few physique aches. Rita had some chills that got here and went. Slight fevers too. To play issues proper, as is required on the planet proper now, we had been examined for the Coronavirus, and had been discovered to be constructive.”
Nicely, now. What to do subsequent?” the star continued:
The Medical Officers have protocols that have to be adopted. We Hanks’ might be examined, noticed, and remoted for so long as public well being and security requires. Not way more to it than a one-day-at-a-time strategy, no?
We’ll preserve the world posted and up to date.
Maintain yourselves!
Hanks, who was most lately nominated for an Oscar for Finest Supporting Actor for his position as Fred Rogers in A Stunning Day within the Neighborhood, was slated to play Col. Tom Parker, the Dutch-born supervisor of Elvis Presley in a biopic directed by Luhrmann, maybe greatest recognized for the 2001 smash hit Moulin Rouge.
In line with the Australian government’s Department of Health on Wednesday, March 11, there have been greater than 100 confirmed circumstances of coronavirus within the nation, together with three deaths.
Luhrmann’s movie is currently slated for a fall 2021 launch. Austin Butler, who seems in The Carrie Diaries and As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood, is about to star as Presley.
This text might be up to date as we be taught extra about Hanks’s situation.