Director Ethan Hawke took a deep dive into the fiction of the late American author Flannery O’Connor for his new film 'Wildcat,' hoping to tell her story in a way that helps the viewer make sense of her world view developed as a white Roman Catholic child of the segregated American South.
Director Ethan Hawke poses during the international premiere of "Wildcat" at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 11, 2023.
In “Wildcat,” which had its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival , Hawke pulls from the author’s fiction to tell her story. He and his daughter Maya Hawke, the film's star, wanted to showcase O’Connor’s ability to capture the human condition in prose. O’Connor’s writing won several literary awards, and she was featured on a postage stamp in 2015. Yet personal letters show a woman who was, in her own words, a “segregationist by taste.”
“I felt attached to her from when I was young because she was the first famous writer who I ever heard hate themselves,” Maya Hawke said.
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