Ethan Hawke ‘couldn’t care less’ about directing daughter Maya in graphic sex scenes

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assured Variety. Not so much co-stars Rafael Casal, 38, and Cooper Hoffman, 20, however. “I think it was weird for them, said Hawke, 52, to Variety. “We made sure to have an intimacy coordinator on set for them,” Maya, 25, told a reporter. “So that they felt safe and comfortable and not like they were being spied on …” “… by some creepy dad,” interjected Hawke.

The biopic, starring the “Stranger Things” actress, tells the story of the late Southern author Flannery O’Connor as she attempts to publish her first book.

Because relatively little is known about the private life of the reclusive novelist, aside from the fact that she was born in Georgia in 1925 and died at the age of 39 due to lupus, the film sets out to tell the “Wise Blood” author’s story through her written work. “She’s not a clear-cut hero by any stretch of the imagination,” said Maya, most likely referring to the recent re-examination of racial language and other themes in O’Connor’s writing, after a lengthy critique was published in the New Yorker in 2020. “But in all of [her] faults,” Maya said O’Connor is worth getting to know as “a way of understanding the history of this country.”Despite her enthusiasm for the film.

Maya told Variety that she had “moments of insecurity” about starring in a movie directed by her parent. “The internet doesn’t have a lot of nuances,” said Maya referring to the backlash aimed at children of Hollywood stars, or “nepo babies.” “My dad has been a massive teacher for me, and we want to work together.