By Christine Estera
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The actor was spotted on a train in New York earlier this week, casually hopping on the subway in Manhattan much to the surprise of fellow commuters.
The 69-year-old was seen standing inside the packed carriage dressed in a khaki jacket and black pants, which he teamed with an green Yankees baseball cap.
Even with a face mask on, there was no mistaking the man beneath the mask was Hanks, who was also later spotted grabbing a $1 coffee from a street cart.
“Gotta love how humble and normal he is despite being a huge star,” one fan tweeted as photos of the actor on-board circulated online.
“Tom Hanks just casually riding the NYC subway like a regular New Yorker. The definition of down to earth. What a legend!” another tweeted.
Other X users weren’t as impressed with the actor for wearing a face mask while on the $3 train ride.
“Blending right in with locals behind a simple face mask,” one user sarcastically tweeted, as another commented, “Got that mask so he don’t catch any of those poor people germs?”
Hanks is indeed worth a cool $600 million and is one of the most powerful figures in show business. He counts some of Hollywood’s elites as his closest friends, including Steven Spielberg, who Hanks has holidayed with in recent years on-board the powerhouse director’s $US250 million superyacht Seven Seas.
However, Hanks has said in the past that he isn’t driven by money and he would be just as happy doing what he does on a small salary.
“My attitude to money? On a 1980 TV series called Bosom Buddies I made $US5000 a week. If I had made that kind of money for the rest of my life I would have been happy, honestly. But I have been getting ludicrous sums of money for quite some time,” he previously told The Sun.
“The best part is not owing money to anyone. Money, though, has never been my driving force. You can live in the biggest and best house in the world but it can be sh*t if you are unhappy.’’
The Oscar winner is currently in New York to star in the off-Broadway production of This World of Tomorrow, a new play he co-wrote and will star in from October 30 at The Shed‘s Griffin Theater in Manhattan.
The play is based on Hanks’ short stories about a scientist from the future who searches for true love but keeps returning to the same day in 1939.
The play runs for a limited eight weeks, wrapping on December 21.