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Will Tom Hanks ever explore the final frontier? Maybe, but not with Jeff Bezos. The Amazon honcho offered him a ride to space, but the price tag was a bit too steep.
“It costs like $28 million or something like that. And I'm doing good…but I ain't paying $28 million,” the Academy Award winner said on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “You know what, we could simulate the experience of going to space right now. I don't need to spend 28 million bucks to do that.”
Tom also paid tribute to his friend, the late Peter Scolari, who recently passed away after a two-year battle with cancer. The two starred on “Bosom Buddies” in the 1980s. “I don’t know how many people truly do change your lives when you cross paths with them,” he said as he recalled their first meeting on the set of the 1980s sitcom. “We were molecularly connected in a way that we started speaking the same language.” After Jimmy shared a clip of them on the show that featured them dressing as women to live in an all-women hotel, Tom said, “Peter has a lovely family, his wife Tracy, absolutely great kids and we lost him to the emperor of all maladies. So thanks for letting us show that.”