Tom Hanks made good on his promise.
On Wednesday, the Oscar winner shared photos of his plasma donation, after saying publicly that he planned to give blood and plasma to help find a vaccine for COVID-19.
“Here’s last week’s bag of plasma. Such a bag!” he wrote on social media. “After the paperwork, it’s as easy as taking a nap. Thanks @arimoin and UCLA. Hanx.”
Hanks, 63, and wife Rita Wilson, 63, said after recovering from coronavirus that they would both donate.
“We have not only been approached, we have said, ‘Do you want our blood? Can we give plasma?’ And, in fact, we will be giving it now to the places that hope to work on what I would like to call the Hank-ccine,” Hanks said on NPR’s podcast “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”
Hanks said the couple learned that they had antibodies after their bout with COVID-19, which they were diagnosed with last month in Australia while Hanks was working on Baz Luhrmann’s now-delayed Elvis Presley biopic.
“A lot of the questions [are] what do we do now? Is there something we can do? And, in fact, we just found out that we do carry the antibodies,” Hanks said.