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Ethan Hawke Says Late Friend River Phoenix Was ‘Chewed Up’ By Hollywood

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River Phoenix was a victim of Hollywood. In a new interview with The Guardian, Ethan Hawke opened up about his friend and former co-star, who died of a drug overdose outside a Los Angeles nightclub in 1993 at the age of 23.

RELATED: Ethan Hawke Talks About Watching Daughter Maya Come Into Her Own As An Artist Hawke explained that Phoenix’s story is part of reason he’s largely stuck to making independent and smaller films over his career. “Why [don’t I] make easier movies?

Well, my first screen partner overdosed on Sunset Boulevard,” he said of Phoenix. “He was the brightest light and this industry chewed him up, and that was a big lesson to me.” The two actors starred together in the adventure film “Explorers” when they were both 14.

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