--- title: Tom Hanks Sent a Fan Selfie Reddit description: Tom Hanks continues to be really good at being Tom Hanks, proving it by sending a fan a letter and a selfie canonical: https://time.com/4608966/tom-hanks-selfie-fan/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-21T15:06:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:40.963Z og:title: Tom Hanks Pulled a Tom Hanks and Sent a Fan a Polaroid Selfie og:description: Tom Hanks continues to be kind to his fans og:url: https://time.com/4608966/tom-hanks-selfie-fan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tom Hanks Pulled a Tom Hanks and Sent a Fan a Polaroid Selfie twitter:description: Tom Hanks continues to be kind to his fans twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Tom Hanks Pulled a Tom Hanks and Sent a Fan the Most 90s Selfie Ever by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Dec 21, 2016 3:06 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Dec 21, 2016 3:06 PM UTC [Tom Hanks](http://time.com/4528931/tom-hanks-on-donald-trump-women-comments/?iid=sr-link1) continues to be really good at being [Tom Hanks](http://time.com/4507954/tom-hanks-wedding-photo-shoot/?iid=sr-link2). A fan sent the Academy Award winning actor a letter expressing her eternal love for his ’90s movie _That Thing You Do!_and asked for a headshot. Much to the surprise of the fan, [Hanks](http://time.com/4543418/tom-hanks-big-rap/?iid=sr-link4) wrote back and, according to [the Imgur post](http://imgur.com/a/xDTQC), he wrote back quickly. In the note, which appears to have been written on a typewriter on stationery embossed with the word “HANX”, the star waxed about Toronto development and the impending Christmas holiday. Then, instead of sending her one of his headshots, which he admits are “not all that current” (because what casting agent would ask Hanks for a headshot these days?), he came up with a much better prize. He snapped a photo of himself holding up the fan’s photo for the best selfie ever. While [Hanks](http://time.com/4542944/saturday-night-live-tom-hanks-cut-for-time-sketch/?iid=sr-link6) apologized for his beard and the photo, writing, “This Polaroid has been developing as I have been typing. The thing is scary”, the photo undoubtedly became the fan’s Facebook profile picture the second she received it. In the letter, [Hanks](http://time.com/4485367/tom-hanks-ellen-degeneres-pixar-video/?iid=sr-link5) admits that he is also still a fan of _That Thing You Do!,_ the film he wrote and directed back in 1996\. He wrote: “For the record, I still find myself humming some of the music from That Thing You Do like you. I was always partial to the songs ‘[Dance With Me Tonight’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWSmgSXZQJo) and ‘[Drive Faster’.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gX86ehE2rc)” He ended the letter with a variation on his [Oakland Raiders-inspired](http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-raiders-fan-tom-hanks-letter-ken-stabler-daughters-20151228-story.html) sign off: “Throw deep, always.” See the selfie and entire note below. Tom Hanks Sent a Fan Selfie Reddit ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4608966/tom-hanks-selfie-fan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4608966/tom-hanks-selfie-fan/"},"headline":"Tom Hanks Pulled a Tom Hanks and Sent a Fan the Most 90s Selfie Ever","datePublished":"2016-12-21T15:06:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:40.963Z","description":"Tom Hanks has the most Tom Hanks stationary ever","url":"https://time.com/4608966/tom-hanks-selfie-fan/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","movies","celebrities","Fans","Tom Hanks"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4608966/tom-hanks-selfie-fan/","name":"Tom Hanks Pulled a Tom Hanks and Sent a Fan the Most 90s Selfie Ever"}}]}] ```