Tom Hanks interview

I would ask "Why didn't you take the role when Nora first offered it to you?"

Earlier in the interview Patrick Healy tells us that Ephron had been trying for years to interest Tom Hanks in this role.

Healy asks Hanks what it was about the play that made him excited or interested in taking the role.

And Hanks replied by saying that there weren't many plays about journalism.

Healy never stated if Nora wanted to make a movie or a play about this subject when she first asked Hanks but I assumed when he said Nora had been trying for years to interest him in the role that Hanks knew it was going to be a play.

So that is what prompted me to ask why Hanks did not take the role when Nora originally asked if about it.

I felt as if there was more to it than just because it was a play about journalism.