‘If I keep showing up, eventually they’ll understand where I’m coming from,” says Hawke while discussing ‘Wildcat,’ a new film he directed and co-wrote that star…
Ethan Hawke directs daughter Maya Hawke in “Wildcat,” a film he co-wrote about the Southern writer Flannery O’Connor. had his big breakout with “Dead Poets Society” when he was only 19. Since then, his movie career stretches across decades from “White Fang” and “Midnight Clear” to “Reality Bites” and “Before Sunrise” to “Training Day” and “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” and then “The Purge,” “Phone Booth” and “Leave the World Behind.
Hawke recently spoke by video from his Brooklyn home while noshing on rice balls from a local Japanese restaurant amidst his swirl of press day interviews. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Q. As someone always looking for a challenge, was part of the appeal that O’Connor doesn’t lend herself to a traditional biopic?
Q. You’ve noted that there’s been a longstanding debate, which has flared up in recent years, about the racism O’Connor displayed in her private writing. How did that inform your film? She was born and bred and sustained on the earth soil and water of the Jim Crow South. One scholar said she was a recovering racist. She saw how ugly it was. She wrote about the people doing the oppressing and they all get strangled or gored by a bull or shot in the head. And if she’s good at anything, it’s knowing that her heart is not without barbs and shards of glass – and that none of ours are free of that.
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