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I would have considered it if it had been free
During an interview on the Jimmy Kimmel Live program, the actor assured that Jeff Bezos himself, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, had offered him the possibility of traveling to space but he rejected it.
“Yes, that’s right, as long as I paid for it. You know, it costs like 28 million bucks or something. I’m doing fine, Jimmy, I’m doing fine. But I’m not going to pay 28 million bucks”, laughed the interpreter of Forrest Gump or Polar Express.
“It’s like a 12 minute flight, right? Something like that? Okay, we can do it on our couches right now,” he joked. “I don’t need to spend $ 28 million on that,” Hanks said.
And he also counted that perhaps he would have been encouraged if the walk had been free. “Just to experience the joy of pretending to be a billionaire,” he laughed.
The fortune of actor since he began his acting career in 1980, is estimated that it has reached 400 million dollars.
Who did not reject Bezos’s offer was another actor: William Shatner, Captain Kirk from the Star Trek saga. On October 13, at the age of 90, Shatner traveled in the New Shepard spacecraft, with which he spent 10 minutes and 17 seconds in the air, 106 kilometers above the Texas desert.
“What you have given me is the most profound experience,” the interpreter confessed to Jeff Bezos with great emotion once the trip was over. “I hope I never recover from this. I hope to keep what I feel now. I don’t want to lose it”, he assured.