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Journalist who inspired the Mister Rogers film biopic explains why Tom Hanks is perfect to play the kids' TV icon
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Tom Junod, an ESPN writer whose 1998 "now-essential" Esquire profile of Fred Rogers is the basis for the upcoming film biopic You Are My Friend, says of Hanks’ casting: “The really cool thing about Tom Hanks playing Fred is that Fred and Tom Hanks are similar in a really essential way in that they are gentle people, they are soft spoken people, but they are powerful people. I think that Tom Hanks can really bring that aspect of Fred out."
TOPICS: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Fred Rogers, Marielle Heller, Tom Hanks, Tom Junod
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