The Kill Room is right around the corner, and a new trailer has just been released!
03.09.2023 - 14:11 / variety.com
Ethan Hawke Guest Columnist I first came across the name Flannery O’Connor when I was in high school idly scanning the spines of books in my parents’ living room. I read a couple of the stories — “The Lame Shall Enter First” and “Everything That Rises Must Converge” — and became intrigued by the fact that my mother ranked O’Connor with the likes of William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams when it came to conjuring the white, post-Civil War, Southern persona. Decades later, my daughter Maya introduced me to another side of O’Connor by giving me the writer’s “Prayer Journal” — a young woman’s search for meaning through musings addressed to God, all written in a lined notebook.
It was easy to fall in love with this achingly earnest young artist. “Dear God,” she wrote. “I cannot love Thee the way I want to.
You are the slim crescent of a moon that I see and my self is the earth’s shadow that keeps me from seeing all the moon… Please let Christian principles permeate my writing and please let there be enough of my writing (published!) for Christian principles to permeate… I do not mean to be clever although I do mean to be clever on 2nd thought and like to be clever & want to be considered so…” When preparing an audition piece for Julliard in 2017, Maya adapted some of Flannery’s journal entries into a monologue. “Thousands of kids audition,” she told me. “I don’t want to do Juliet’s “Come Gentle Romeo” speech — they probably hear it 25,000 times a year.” Maya first performed the journal entries for the family in our kitchen one freezing winter night seven years ago.
The Kill Room is right around the corner, and a new trailer has just been released!
You could cinematically memorialize the life and works of Southern writer Flannery O’Connor in two ways, either by making a biographical drama or by adapting her work to the screen. Actor Ethan Hawke, however, directing a dramatic feature film for the fourth time, says, “Why not both?” and gives us a mélange of the two.
Naman Ramachandran The 19th Zurich Film Festival promises to be a star-studded affair with plenty of Hollywood A-list talent attending. Todd Haynes will be honored with the festival’s A Tribute to… Award and will present his film “May December.” Previous recipients include Paolo Sorrentino, Wim Wenders, Olivier Assayas, Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Oliver Stone, Maïwenn and Luca Guadagnino. “It’s a real honor to celebrate this master of American cinema.
Todd Haynes will be honored with the Zurich Film Festival’s A Tribute To… Award at its upcoming 19th edition.
Ethan Hawke and his daughter Maya Hawke touched down in Toronto over the weekend for the TIFF premiere of their film “Wildcat”.
Ethan Hawke may be Maya Hawke’s dad, but he treated her like the professional she is on the set of “Wildcat”.
Ethan Hawke is a big Toronto fan.
Ethan Hawke wasn’t missing his “Wildcat” TIFF premiere on Monday for anything.
Nothing was going to stop Ethan Hawke from being at the TIFF premiere of his new movie Wildcat, not even an incoming hurricane!
Ethan Hawke was called out by his daughter Maya Hawke over his attempt to flirt with Rihanna at the 2015 NBA All-Star game. At the game, Hawke, 52, was pictured in paparazzi photos – that later went viral – having an animated conversation with the singer, 35, as they sat courtside with the actor's then 13-year-old son Levon. In a recent Variety video, the father/daughter duo was playing a game to determine how well they knew each other when the 25-year-old "Stranger Things" actress was asked if her father would rather attend a Lady Gaga or Rihanna concert.
Insecure star Kendrick Sampson is going to Dallas where SAG-AFTRA is set to hold a rally on Saturday. The visit is significant to Sampson in support of Texas actors navigating the strike under the leadership of Governor Greg Abbott, who he calls an “evil human being”.
It is never a normal “opening night” when it comes to the Toronto Film Festival which is offering numerous films including the much anticipated Hayao Miyizaki film The Boy And The Heron which is the key opening night gala, but there are others including two exceptional directorial debuts from celebrated veteran stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Patricia Arquette making it all a very memorable kickoff for TIFF on many fronts.
assured Variety. Not so much co-stars Rafael Casal, 38, and Cooper Hoffman, 20, however. “I think it was weird for them, said Hawke, 52, to Variety.
Maestro, starring and directed by Bradley Cooper, is set to close the 37th AFI Fest next month. The Leonard Bernstein biopic also starring Carey Mulligan will put a bow on the annual event with a red carpet gala Sunday, October 29, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Ethan Hawke and his daughter are really ‘comfortable’ around each other… Like, REALLY comfortable.
Maya Hawke in sex scenes.The pair have collaborated together on the upcoming Flannery O’Connor biopic Wildcat, where Maya plays the late author as well as six other characters from O’Connor’s short stories.Two of these short stories feature sex scenes, where Maya stars opposite Cooper Hoffman and Rafael Casal. Despite the potential for awkwardness with her father Ethan directing the project, the pair insisted they were “so comfortable” when it came to tackling those scenes.“We needed to take care of Rafael and Cooper,” Ethan said with a laugh to Variety. “I think it was weird for them.
Ethan Hawke and his actress/singer daughter, Maya Hawke, are opening up about the whole nepotism debate in their joint interview with Variety.
Maya Hawke joins dad Ethan Hawke on the cover of Variety, featuring an interview in which the father-daughter actors discuss a wide variety of topics, including her famous family (her mother is Uma Thurman).
Ethan Hawke is feeling the family shame.
Sam Esmail’s Leave the World Behind will open the 37th AFI Fest next month. The apocalyptic thriller starring Academy Award winners Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali, four-time Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke and Industry‘s Myha’la will make its world premiere October 25 with a red carpet gala at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.