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After spending four years on that desert island, Tom Hanks thinks he can teach Ford a thing or two about toughness.
“I could kick the butts of all those guys driving their trucks,” he joked to Entertainment Weekly when asked about the new Ford ad mentioning tough guys’ aversion to movies like You’ve Got Mail. “Come by me, man, and I’ll tear you apart.”
Ford marketing chief Lew Echlin was unimpressed. “I have two words for Tom: Bosom Buddies,” he told EW, referring to the ’80s sitcom in which Hanks dressed as a woman.
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