Ethan Hawke Talks ‘Wildcat’ at Zurich, Working With Maya: ‘It’s Extremely Easy to Direct Your Own Daughter, Because the Love Is There’
variety.comMarta Balaga Ethan Hawke opened up at Zurich Film Festival about working with daughter and “Stranger Things” star Maya Hawke on “Wildcat.” “It’s extremely easy to direct your own daughter, because the love is there,” he told the audience. “When I was making the documentary ‘The Last Movie Stars’ [about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward], I got to interview Martin Scorsese.
I asked: ‘Why do you think Paul survived?’ So many people fall prey to the trappings of celebrity.” “He gave me a very simple answer: ‘Because of Joanne.’ They worked together all the time.
When you work with someone you love, it keeps you close to whatever makes you want to do this in the first place.” While Hawke ended up directing the film about writer Flannery O’Connor – and co-wrote the script with Shelby Gaines – it was Maya who brought it to him. “She was 15 or 16 years old when she discovered Flannery O’Connor on her own.
She was a young woman growing up in the Jim Crow South, a very turbulent time in American history. She had this arresting mind that I think Maya found very engaging and a lot of insecurity about the nature of ambition.
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