Ethan Hawke couldn’t be more direct in his support of the president. “Kamala Harris is driving the bus I want to ride.”
talk with hollywood report rome During the Lucca Film Festival, the actor and filmmaker said his mother gave him some particularly insightful advice about this election season: “I was talking to my mother about the upcoming elections, and she told me, ‘ Voting is like taking public transportation. It won’t get you exactly to your home, but it will get you close to home. So, you take a train or a bus, and it will get you closer to home. Come on, there’s no doubt about it: I want to ride the bus Kamala drives.
While in Lucca, Hawke began the day running along the ancient city walls and biking through the historic streets. In addition to the lifetime achievement honor he will receive at the festival, Hawke will also screen his latest directorial effort in Lucca, wildcatstarring his daughter Maya. The film tells the story of American writer Flannery O’Connor, who struggled with lupus throughout her life, a disease that eventually left her disabled and led to her death in 1964.
“I’m so touched that someone as young as Maya wants to take on such a challenging project, a film about a writer who barely leaves his room. It’s a story about a character whose life is Writing and feeding the chickens,” Hawk said. “But Maya has been passionate about Flannery O’Connor’s writing since she was a little girl. She called me and her mom [Uma Thurman]asked us to collaborate with her to bring this film to life. I’m so proud that she chose us.
The film interweaves O’Connor’s life and the story of her disturbing hallucinations, filled with grotesque, cruel and disfigured characters. Hawke compared them to a political figure: “If you heard about a real estate developer running for president of the United States, selling Bibles to pay for porn stars, you would think it was Flannery O’Connor. ) characters in the novel.
Born in Texas in 1970, a distant relative of playwright Tennessee Williams, Hawke became internationally famous as a teenager in Peter Weir’s 1989 period drama dead poets society. “From Will, I learned to embrace all challenges and love them,” Hawke shared.
Hawke is a frequent collaborator with director Richard Linklater, who directed him on before sunrise, before sunset and before midnight A multi-year trilogy with Julie Delpy, and this coming-of-age epic boyhooda film that took more than 12 years to shoot. Over the course of his diverse career, Hawke was also a screenwriter, producer, novelist, and musician, and was nominated for four Academy Awards.
Hawke’s next film as an actor reunited him with Linklater. “We filmed blue mooncharts the final days of lyricist Lorenz Hart, one half of the iconic Rodgers and Hart songwriting duo. The script is the most beautiful script I have ever read. This would be an amazing movie if we did it justice. It takes place in real time over 90 minutes, documenting Hart’s life.
Hart’s life was marked by trouble, alcoholism and depression. The film is set during the premiere Oklahoma!As Hart fell deeper into despair, Rogers created the first musical without him. The cast includes Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott and Bobby Cannavale.
“Hart was a funny, irreverent, deeply complex man with a broken heart,” Hawke commented. “He had a sense of humor that always lurked death. A bittersweet character, steeped in melancholy.
