Tom Hanks, the golden boy of Hollywood, doesn’t take every role that’s thrown at him. While he has had an illustrious career playing well intentioned, good men, he decided to turn down the role of Ray Kinsella in the famous Field of Dreams alongside James Earl Jones. The film was about an ordinary man’s attempts to do something special with his life, so it was probably fitting that the role went to Kevin Costner, who may have needed to do something special with his film career.
