Tom Hanks has stated he wouldn’t attend a White House screening of his new film The Post should he be invited by Donald Trump.
Hanks stars in the Steven Spielberg-directed drama alongside Meryl Streep as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee who found himself under threat from President Richard Nixon after publishing a series of stories about the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
Hanks pinpointed Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment as a key reason as to why he wouldn’t wish to attend a screening of the film.
When asked if he would take the film to the White House should an invitation be extended, Hanks told The Hollywood Reporter: “I don’t think I would.” “I didn’t think things were going to be this way last November.