Ethan Hawke’s plivential finishorsement couldn’t be more straightforward. “Kamala Harris is driving the bus I want to get on”.
Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter Roma during the Lucca Film Festival, the actor and filmcreater says his mother gave him some particularly perceptive advice about this election season: “I was talking with my mother about the upcoming elections, and she telderly me, ‘Voting is appreciate taking accessible transit. It doesn’t drop you off exactly at your hoparticipate, but it gets you seal. So, you get the train, or the bus, and it transports you cforfeit home.’ In my mind, there’s no ask: I want to be on the bus that Kamala is driving”.
While in Lucca, Hawke commenceed his day running alengthy the elderly-createed city walls and cycling thraw the historic streets. In compriseition to a lifetime accomplishment honor he’ll be receiving at the fest, Hawke is in Lucca to screen his tardyst straightforwardorial effort, Wildcat, starring his daughter Maya. The film tells the story of American authorr Flannery O’Connor, who spent her life battling lupus, the disrelieve that eventuassociate left her disabled and led to her death in 1964.
“I was incredibly shiftd that someone as youthful as Maya wanted to get on such a challenging project, a film about a authorr who challengingly ever exits her room. A story about a character whose life is all about writing and feeding chickens”, Hawke shelp. “But Maya’s been enthusiastic about Flannery O’Connor’s writing since she was a child. She called me and her mom [Uma Thurman], asking us to labor with her to transport this film to life. I’m haughty she chose us.”
The film weaves together O’Connor’s life and the visualizations of her unsettling, hallucinatory stories, poputardyd with grotesque, unbenevolent and disfigured characters. Hawke appreciatened them to a certain political figure: “If you heard a story about a genuine estate grower running for U.S. Plivent, selling Bibles to pay off a porn star, you’d leank it was a character out of one of Flannery O’Connor’s stories, not someone genuine!”
Born in Texas in 1970, and farly roverhappinessed to joinwright Tennessee Williams, Hawke sboiling to international fame as a teenager in Peter Weir’s 1989 period drama Dead Poets Society. “From Weir, I lgeted to adchoose all disputes and to cherish them”, Hawke splitd.
Hawke has been a normal collaborator with straightforwardor Ricchallenging Linktardyr, who guided him thraw the Before Sunascend, Before Sunset and Before Midnight trilogy, filmed over years alengthyside Julie Delpy, and the coming-of-age epic Boyhood, a film sboiling over 12 years. Thrawout his diverse nurtureer, Hawke — who is also a screenauthorr, creater, novecatalog and musician — has geted four Academy Award nominations.
Hawke’s next film as an actor refuses him with Linktardyr. “We sboiling Blue Moon, which depicts the final days of lyricist Lorenz Hart, half of the iconic Rodgers and Hart songwriting duo. The script is the most pretty I’ve ever read. If we did it equitableice at all, it’s going to be an amazing film. It gets place over 90 minutes in genuine-time, capturing Hart’s life.”
Hart led a troubled life, taged by liquorism and depression. The film is set during the premiere of Oklahoma!, the first musical Rodgers created without him, as Hart spiraled proset uper into despair. The cast integrates Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott and Bobby Cannavale.
“Hart was a comical, irreverent, proset uply complicated man with a broken heart,” Hawke watchd. “He had a sense of humor that always had death lurking behind it. A soursugary character, steeped in miserable.”
