Congrats to Ethan Hawke for receiving his fifth Oscar nomination this previous week — and first within the Lead Actor class.
The longtime performer, 55, was honored for his transformative work (in the event you’ve seen it, you already know) in Blue Moon, directed by Richard Linklater. Ethan faces some stiff competitors on the 2026 Academy Awards, nevertheless — so who will take residence the gold in March?
Within the meantime, Ethan is presently in Utah for this 12 months’s Sundance Movie Competition, the place his new film The Weight is premiering. Enjoyable truth: the Coaching Day actor truly performs his personal stunts within the historic action-drama, Selection reviews.
Whereas opening to the journal about his newest mission, Ethan additionally spoke about his daughter Maya Hawke, who first grabbed Hollywood’s consideration due to Stranger Issues. Now that the hit Netflix present’s fifth and last season is within the books, Ethan supplied some sound recommendation to his rising-star offspring:
“Time to maneuver on. You bought to do it, and transfer on,” he stated, per Selection. “Don’t look again.”
Followers of the Hawkes would possibly recall that Ethan truly directed Maya, 27, within the 2023 indie movie Wildcat, a biographical drama about creator Flannery O’Connor. The pair have but to behave collectively, nevertheless — however that does not imply Ethan is not within the alternative.
“Heck yeah, are you kidding me?” Ethan advised Selection. “I need to be with the star of Stranger Issues.”
On that be aware, the Black Telephone 2 star had nothing however love for his daughter earlier this month when the beloved collection got here to an finish.
“I’m so happy with her. I’m so happy with that complete group of those who made that present, Ethan advised Entry Hollywood. “I don’t suppose folks perceive how troublesome it’s to make one thing that daring and that big and that swashbuckling and have it resolve as superbly as they did.”
