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The Big Picture Across the dimly lit paths of Southern literature, there are a few authors who loom as large and enigmatic as Flannery O’Connor. With a piercing intellect and a sharp exploration of human behavior, the renowned writer known for biting Gothic-style narratives carved out a distinct niche for herself that continues to captivate and inspire readers today. But beyond her literary credits, O’Connor remains a figure shrouded in mystery and contradictions that rouse debate.
Release Date May 3, 2024 Director Ethan Hawke Cast Maya Hawke , Laura Linney , Steve Zahn , Vincent D'Onofrio , Cooper Hoffman , Rafael Casal , Phillip Ettinger , Levon Hawke Runtime 103 Minutes Main Genre Drama Writers Shelby Gaines , Ethan Hawke Tagline Some people cannot be broken.
MAYA HAWKE: Yeah. I would ask her, maybe, about rejection. I mean, if I got to have a long question for her, I would ask her about how she handled rejection so well.ETHAN HAWKE: How was she so tough and so disciplined and so ferocious? We live in a culture in which we’re all desperate to be liked and have people understand us, and she was never liked and never understood, and yet she just got more rigorous.MAYA HAWKE: She never tried to filter herself through a commercial lens.
So, when he came to me with that, and after I’d had this conversation with Joe Goodman, who was the man who wonderfully had all the rights to Flannery’s letters and stories, I thought, “Well, that’s really why I’m interested in Flannery.” Why I’m interested is because of this intersection between her desire to be a great artist and her desire to be a great Christian, and the ways in which those things conflicted for her at one point in her life and then became wed.
MAYA HAWKE: Yeah. Then, we had a lot of conversations where we talked about America, about Flannery being a recovering racist, America recovering from racism, and we talked for hours.
Related 10 Great Movies About Religion That Anyone Can Appreciate Powerful, challenging cinematic works from 'First Reformed' to Scorsese's 'Silence' MAYA HAWKE: There’s been this massive rise in atheism, like, led by America. I was reading about it recently.
MAYA HAWKE: The biggest relief of working on this movie was being directed by an actor I respect so much, and knowing that if he thought that we’ve gotten it, I was genuinely confident that we could move on. You know, there’s a lot of the times where you’re on set and they’re like, “Alright, we’re ready to move on,” and you’re like, “I don’t know if we got it, actually,” or, “Maybe I could do better.
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