Hollywood Actor, Tom Hanks has come out to explain why he turned down the idea of traveling with Jeff Bezos to space.

He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and the world has been reacting.

According to him, it is true that Bezos asked him to join the space exploration crew but he was expected to part with cash for the adventure.

Tom added that even if he is wealthy enough to afford certain things, he simply wasn’t ready to pay around $28 million for the experience.

His words, “Well yeah, provided I pay,”

“It costs like $28 million or something like that. And I’m doing good, Jimmy — I’m doing good — but I ain’t paying $28 million. You know what, we could simulate the experience of going to space right now.”

WOW.

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon.

Hanks’s films have grossed more than $4.9 billion in North America and more than $9.96 billion worldwide, making him the fourth-highest-grossing actor in North America.

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, on July 9, 1956, to hospital worker Janet Marylyn (née Frager) and itinerant cook Amos Mefford Hanks. His mother was of Portuguese descent (her family’s surname was originally “Fraga”), while his father had English ancestry.

His parents divorced in 1960. Their three oldest children, Sandra (later Sandra Hanks Benoiton, a writer), Larry (an entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign), and Tom, went with their father, while the youngest, Jim (who also became an actor and filmmaker), remained with their mother in Red Bluff, California.