It’s a rainy day in New York City, and Maya Hawke is telling me about her short-lived attempt to call her father ‘Ethan’ on the set of their new film, “Wildcat.” We’re escaping the downpour at a co…
.” We’re escaping the downpour at a cozy neighborhood restaurant in Chelsea, and sitting across from the striking father-daughter duo is like having a front-row seat to the royal family of art-house cinema.
The monologue got her accepted to Juilliard. Though she dropped out of school a year later to make her acting debut in the 2017 BBC adaptation of “Little Women,” she never lost her interest in O’Connor and the Bible thumpers, hucksters and grotesques at the center of her work. “I had moments of insecurity about it while we were shooting the movie,” admits Maya, who was also a producer. ”But the internet doesn’t have a lot of nuances. My dad has been a massive teacher for me, and we want to work together. We like being with each other.”
“I didn’t have a babysitter for Maya, so I brought her to the tech rehearsal, which is insanely boring,” he says. “We do the whole play, stopping and starting as they adjust the lights, not in costume.” Ethan had a very personal experience with the darker side of celebrity. “My first scene partner in acting was River Phoenix,” he says of his “Explorers” co-star and friend, who died in 1993 from a drug overdose at age 23. “He had such a passion for music, and I think it would have helped him to go deeper with that. But there’s a feeling like you can’t get off the treadmill.For his part, Ethan believes he’s lucky in the level of attention he’s received.
This year, she’ll also appear in Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro” and again work with family — this time, her mom — in the witty heist thriller “The Kill Room,” starring Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson. “I’m so excited for people to get to see my mom be funny,” she says. “In the last couple of years, she’s done independent comedies that, for whatever reason, haven’t seen the light of day. She’s the funniest person I know.
“Ethan and Maya have spent a lifetime discussing art with each other,” says Casal, who also worked with the Hawkes on “The Good Lord Bird.” “If anything, them being family allows them to skip past the usual trappings of strangers and get right to the honest moments.”
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