Ethan and Maya Hawke were well aware nepo baby discourse might reach their new film Wildcat
, Ethan meets the charge with humor: “Put simply, I’m a nepo dad! And I’m not embarrassed about it.” In fact, Ethan truly believeslevel. “This movie is being financed because she’s in it, not because I’m directing,” he proclaims. Their friends and co-stars are more than willing to shield the duo from any untoward accusations. “The production’s demands were high. It wasn’t a cute father-daughter thing,” says Laura Linney, who plays Maya’s mother.
Ethan and Maya agree that “making art together” is their “safe space,” so much so that they really had no qualms working together, let alone shooting some of the intimate scenes that were required by the script. “We needed to take care of Rafael and Cooper [Hoffman]. I think it was weird forwere so comfortable with it. I couldn’t care less,” the director tells the outlet.
“If someone wants to criticize us for working together, that’s totally fair. You have to let people have their opinion,” says her dad, who also insists that while being famous can get you an audition for Julliard, “but they’re not going to get you in.” In Ethan’s view, “You just have to try to do a good job when you’re onstage.”
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