Tom Hanks, 65, has sparked concern among his fans as he revealed a gaunt new look after shedding the pounds.
Video emerged of the Oscar-winning actor speaking at the premiere of his latest movie, the musical biopic Elvis, and his arm began to visibly shake while he was talking to the audience in Brisbane, Australia.
His slender frame was showcased in a light-coloured suit, and Tom grabbed his arm while holding the microphone in an attempt to steady the shaking.
The Saving Private Ryan star is well known for gaining and losing weight for his roles, but since he and wife Rita Wilson battled Covid in 2020, he’s maintained a very slim figure.
He was recently spotted walking around New York in loose fitting clothes, but his weight loss was emphasised as his face looked gaunt, despite trying to hide under a baseball cap as he ran errands in the city.
Tom wore a fat suit and prosthetics to play Elvis's overweight manager Colonel Tom Parker in the Baz Luhrmann biopic, but in the past, he’s famously gained and shed incredible amounts of weight for Hollywood projects.
He lost 50lbs to play the survivor of a plane crash who lands on a remote island in the 2000 drama Castaway, and in 1993, he won an Oscar for his portrayal of a gay lawyer battling AIDS in the critically-acclaimed drama Philadelphia.
Tom put on weight to play a baseball coach in the 1992 film A League of Their Own, gaining 30lbs and then losing it shortly after filming finished.
Back in 2013, he revealed he had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and would not be losing or gaining weight for film roles anymore, for the sake of his health.
“I think that's more or less a young man's game,” he quipped.
At the time, he told Radio Times that he was “an idiot” for neglecting his health over the years.
“I'm part of the lazy American generation that has blindly kept dancing through the party and now finds ourselves with a malady,” Tom explained.
His next project is the upcoming drama Here, which will reunite Tom with his Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis.
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