While promoting his new war movie “Greyhound” on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on Tuesday night, Tom Hanks revealed that he and his wife Rita Wilson experienced very different symptoms during their much-publicized fight with the coronavirus in March.
The couple had tested positive during a break from filming Baz Luhrmann’s biopic Elvis Presley in Australia, but have since recovered.
During the virtual interview, the 64-year-old man told host Stephen Colbert that his bones “felt like they were made from soda crackers,” during the eight or nine day recovery period.
“Every time I moved, I felt like something was breaking inside,” said the Oscar winner, who also reported feeling “fatigue and pain.”
Meanwhile, 63-year-old Wilson reportedly experienced a high fever, headaches and lost his sense of smell and taste due to the virus.
Due to severe symptoms, the couple was briefly hospitalized before they were allowed to quarantine together in a rented house.
Unfortunately, Hanks claims that he still has no idea how or where he contracted COVID-19, or whether he is immune to the disease.
“No one really knows what the X factor is,” said award winner Cecil B. DeMille, who twice donated plasma to help fight COVID-19.
Hanks has openly spoken about his battle with the disease and the threat it poses, regularly posting updates on social media while blocked. Most recently, the “Saving Private Ryan” actor criticized the United States’ response to the pandemic during a damning interview on “Today” earlier this month.
“There is a darkness on the outskirts of town here, folks,” he said. Let’s not confuse the fact. It is killing people. . . You can say, ‘Well, car accidents also kill a lot of people.’ But traffic accidents happen because many drivers are not doing their part. They are not using their turn signals. They drive too fast, they are not paying attention. “
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