Tom Hanks delivered a moving graduation speech to US students in which he described post-coronavirus life as “the great reboot”.
“You are the chosen ones because of a fate unimagined when you began your Wright State adventures,” he said.
Hanks said that the pandemic has made young people become “good Americans” who have made “sacrifices that saved lives”.
Hanks was in Australia to film Baz Luhrmann’s untitled Elvis Presley biopic, in which he will star opposite Austin Butler as the singer’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker.