Wilson recently shared that she and her husband for more than 30 years have not yet been vaccinated.
“How about hearing this for the first time in your life: ‘You’re not old enough,'” she said. “It’s like, ‘OK, I’ll take this!'”
“But we are in line now because a lot of people are vaccinated and are opening up to the next level,” she added.
The couple was diagnosed while in Australia. Hanks was filming Elvis Presley, directed by Baz Luhrmann, in which Hanks plays the singer’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, and Wilson was on tour for his latest album, “Halfway to Home”.
Wilson told Today that finding out that they carried the antibodies “was extraordinary because you knew you had some protection. That’s why the vaccine is also helping people.”
“To witness people hugging for the first time in a year, grandparents hugging their grandchildren, people hugging their parents, there is nothing like that,” she said. “This is really a gift.”