Loading...Tom Hanks was not much of a Mister Rogers fan growing up. “I was too busy watching Rocky and Bullwinkle.” But his attitude changed a few years back when Hanks received an email from a friend containing a moving clip from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
The video, from a 1981 episode, featured Rogers greeting a 5 year old boy in a wheelchair named Jeffrey Erlanger. Rogers asked, ‘Jeff, do you ever have days when you’re feeling sad?’ Jeff replies, ‘Well, yeah, sure Mister Rogers. Some days…but not today.’”
After a few minutes of conversation about why Jeff needs to use an electric wheelchair, Mr. Rogers and the boy sang “It’s You I Like.” “It made me bawl my eyes out,” said Hanks. “It’s one of the reasons why I’m in the movie.”
