Ethan Hawke says he’s in his ‘last act’: ‘I only have so much time left’
nypost.comIndieWire.Hawke noted that he feels that he’s “definitely made the turn from being an old young person to being a young old person.”“I prefer this.
I feel like playing John Brown in ‘The Good Lord Bird’ was that for me: the beginning of my ‘old man’ career, the beginning of my last act,” the father of four went on.Hawke starred in, created and produced the 2020 Showtime miniseries about Brown, a slavery abolitionist in the 1850s.He continued: “But it’s the beginning of it, you know?
I definitely find myself looking over a filmography and thinking about which ones I could’ve cut out, because I only have so much time left.
I know I only have so many movies left.”Hawke’s next project, a six-part CNN documentary series that premieres on HBO Max Thursday, is called “The Last Movie Stars” — a look at the love between and the careers of the late actors and spouses Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.He then explained that he now has an “awareness of time” regarding his Hollywood career. “When I was younger, I was like, ‘I’ll do this, I’ll do that, that’ll be a good learning experience, and then I’ll try this’ — thinking I had all the time in the world.
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