Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson have volunteered to donate blood for coronavirus research after recovering from the disease.
Hanks and Wilson revealed on March 11th, in Australia for pre-production of Baz Luhrmann’s untitled Elvis Presley film, that they had tested positive for the virus, becoming the first major celebrities to do so.
Of course coronavirus has overtaken the globe since then, but multiple vaccines around the world are currently in trials or development and Hanks recently told NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me podcast this week he’s helping that battle:
“A lot of the question is, is what now? What do we do now? Is there something we can do? And, in fact, we just found out that we do carry the antibodies. We have not only been approached, we have said, ‘Do you want our blood? Can we give plasma?’ And, in fact, we will be giving it now to the places that hope to work on what I would like to call the ‘Hank-ccine’.”
Hanks remains set to play Presley’s longtime manager Colonel Tom Parker in the project which will resume production in Queensland, Australia when it is able to.
