Ethan Hawke and his daughter Maya Hawke have a running joke about their Flannery O’Connor movie.
This image released by Oscilloscope Laboratories shows writer-director Ethan Hawke , left, and his daughter, actor Maya Hawke , on the set of “Wildcat.” which Ethan directed and Maya stars in as O’Connor, was made with complete sincerity. It’s a deeply creative investigation into theand short story writer behind “A Good Man is Hard to Find” that dips in and out of both her imagination and her real life.
Ethan too had read O’Connor early, at the urging of his mother who wanted him to read female authors in addition to Faulkner and Hemingway. They were both interested in this prickly woman who wrote about faith in a way that wasn’t proselytizing, and about race and white Christian hypocrisy as few others did. She was also talented, self-hating and dealing with this illness, which killed her father. She got her diagnosis at 24 and moved back to Milledgeville, Georgia, to live with her mother .
Before getting too deep into the process, they also asked themselves hard questions about making a movie about someone who “He used to say how important it was that you don’t paint racists with horns on their head because people don’t have horns and racism is real,” Ethan said.
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