Whoa, that’s pretty freakin cool!
From Uproxx:
There’s few other actors who have the innate and bottomless decency to play Fred Rogers, but truly none of us had any idea how perfect the casting was: The two appear to be relations. Distantly, but still. How weird.
As caught by Entertainment Weekly, an Access Hollywood journalist caught up with the two-time Oscar-winning actor and his wife Rita Wilson at an advance screening of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, the forthcoming docudrama in which he plays the PBS legend. And this journalist had done her homework. She came armed not only with questions but some deep research: As per an ancestry.com search, Hanks and Rogers are cousins six times removed, sharing a common ancestor named Johannes Meffert.
Wilson and Hanks were taken aback, though Hanks was able to come up with a tension-dissolving quip, saying, “It all comes together, you see.”
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