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How Ethan Hawke’s Love for Paul Newman Started at Church and Came to Cannes

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really hated church, but my parents made me go.”One particular Sunday, he said, his stepmother was sick and decided to skip the service.

So Hawke and his father got dressed up in their suits and ties and headed for church. “On the way there, my father turned to me and said, ‘There’s a matinee of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” playing.

Would you rather do that?’”He laughed. “Yes, I would rather do that!”At that point, Cannes General Delegate Thierry Fremaux, on hand to introduce the screening at Cannes’ freshly renamed Agnes Varda theater, pointed out that for him, movie theaters are like churches.“This is the church of my choice, right here,” Hawke agreed, turning to the audience. “And you are my congregation!”The six-part “Last Movie Stars,” which Hawke worked on during much of the pandemic, begins with Newman and Woodward first working together and attending the Actors Studio alongside the likes of Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe.

For the Cannes premiere, Hawke summarized the first two episodes, which went up to their 1950s and ’60s successes with “The Hustler” and “Hud” (him) and “The Three Faces of Eve” (her).

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