  Tom Hanks admitted he uses his kindness to his advantage.  “I realize, and I used over and over again, the ability to seduce a room, seduce a group of people, and that it started off when I was very young as a self-defense mechanism but then turned into a manipulative kind of thing, because I didn’t realize that I was as good at it as I was,” Hanks, 63, recently told the New York Times
  He continued, “And part of that is I am not malevolent. I’m not mysterious. You’re not going to get a huge amount of anger out of me or anything like that
 I’m not coming in to dominate a room, but I am coming in to seduce it somehow.”  The “Forrest Gump” star explained how he uses his authentically agreeable temperament to get ahead in his career
  “I thought the thing to do was to win the moment more than carry through with an idea,” he said
 “I’d come to a meeting, and they’d say, ‘I understand you have problems with the rewrite
’ I’d say, ‘No, no, no, hell, we can make it work.’ That’s a cowardice there. And that’s me being willing to seduce whoever that person is on the other side of the room
 In which what do I come off as, ‘Oh, he’s got no problem, he can make it work, he’s a good guy to work with,’ et cetera, et cetera
”  Due to his placid personality, the two-time Oscar winner has learned he can never truly be scary
  “I recognized in myself a long time ago that I don’t instill fear in anybody,” he said
 “Now, that’s different than being nice, you know? I think I have a cache of mystery
 But it’s not one of malevolence.”  Therefore, Hanks feels he can’t play the villain
  “It’s because I never get them, because bad guys, by and large, require some degree of malevolence that I don’t think I can fake,” he said
  Appropriately, Hanks will portray the beloved  Mr. Rogers in his upcoming movie “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
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