My name is Ethan Hawke, and this is.
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Well, the last movie I had that came out
and it happens to be a killer movie,
to an old-school kind of action movie
where it's incredibly like bite your nails tense,
with the temperature turned up really high.
[Betty] What age was Ethan Hawke in Before Sunrise?
[Interviewer] When you look back at your 24-year-old self,
do you see anything that you hadn't quite figured out
[Betty laughing] I hadn't figured anything out.
I mean, the wonderful thing about youth
and being young is you have all this confidence
I was learning so much every day on that movie.
I was really lucky because the film is so dialogue driven
and young actors often can have an obsession about lines.
And about speaking and we just had to talk nonstop
and it's like running with 50 pounds on your back
The films I did immediately after that were so easy.
I just rewatched the movie on a plane a couple weeks ago.
And even at 24, you were using that confidence
why you're one of our finest actors, Ethan Hawke.
It's pretty. In an old ice factory.
And when we filmed it, I had only been given
the pilot script, so I knew just as much
I have to say, as the host of this show, you're awesome
I would say as your fan and co-patriot,
recently it is all about Widow's Bay.
Yes. Yeah. That one really hit the water cooler zeitgeist.
Usually I like to do obscure mini series
[Ethan] What was Betty Gilpin's breakout
Well, I was a dead body with your friend Vincent D'Onofrio.
And then the next year. Was that the first time
you got a part where you were like, Yes, I got this part.
I think I joined SAG from that job.
I was Fran Drescher's daughter and I had one alive line
and then gunshot wound to the neck, naked in an oil barrel.
I think if that happened as much in real life
Yes. Yeah. And I rode the subway home
with my fake bullet hole in my neck and no one cared at all.
I drive a GTO and it happens to be the same GTO
All right, which a lot of people don't know.
Some of the most fun I ever had filming
was with those young people driving around Austin
in Rick's GTO and Rick's daughter and Ellar Coltrane
It was like a friend inviting you over to say,
Hey, we're gonna do this really cool mural
And then you go to the Academy Awards
with the mural that you made his garage.
What is Ethan Hawke [sticker ripping]
the answer to that one. I do, I do.
that we had a really good time working together,
and we highly recommend for your viewing pleasure,
should you choose to spend time watching television,
What is Ethan Hawke [sticker peeling]
and there are so many A+ mezzanine voices that,
let's let the A pluses do the [mumbling].
[sticker peeling] 'in Death by Lightning?
My second daughter was nine weeks old.
and those clothes were designed to have women sit down
and await visitors and someone to come by,
and not to work 14 hour days [laughing] on set.
So it's fun for the first two hours
I'm done being immersed in this corset.
So my rule is no one that I would not text them
a picture in real life, and that's why we follow each other.
Why was Ethan Hawke [sticker ripping]
Okay, so I get a text from my daughter
saying, Taylor Swift, wants your number?
First of all, how's my daughter corresponding
I'm her father, I'm not allowed to ask
So it turns out Taylor Swift is a big Dead Poets Society
fan and she wanted to do a little homage.
And so she invited Josh Charles and I
into being in her video that she was directing.
And I think that she liked me and invited me to her wedding.
And then the funny thing is everybody else
hired a car service to take them to the wedding.
And I got my picture taken walking in the wedding,
all these big stars are at the wedding
If you wanna see weddings. Yeah, yeah.
There's Ryan and I walking into the wedding
'cause we're the only idiots who didn't have a car service.
And we were filming in Tulsa 'til 2:00 AM
Why is Ethan Hawke [sticker ripping]
I'm playing Lorenz Hart and Lorenz Hart was around
between five foot and five foot two
and it's a big aspect of how he saw the world
And it was incredibly difficult to pull off,
And so I thought it was important to his character
that I be somewhere around six inches shorter.
Why is Ethan Hawke? [sticker peeling]
my favorite thing to do in the world.
I remember having this thought when I was about,
where we played Spin the Bottle for the first time.
It was the first time I ever kissed anybody.
It's not really a kiss 'cause it's Spin the Bottle.
But I remember walking home thinking,
but that's probably gonna get old, right?
I mean, I'd like to do it five or six more times,
but I couldn't imagine wanting to do it
And you don't know, it never gets boring.
And that's kind of the way I feel about making movies.
Each one has its possibility of being forever
And I'm also old and I've been doing it since I was 14,
Yeah, but you've also always used your immense ability
to explore and connect and not pose and climb.
And I think that makes Spin the Bottle feel new every time.
I think this is probably about Jodie Comer.
These are both huge compliments to me,
You look just like this girl I grew up with or.
The other day I was coming back from the premiere
in Austin and everybody's telling me how great I am
and how great the show is and all this.
And I step off the airplane and this group of people go,
Oh my God, Kevin Bacon, you are my favorite actor
[Betty laughing] It was a great experience.
Cristin Milioti, one of my best friends.
She is just such an incredible actor.
It was a huge hit in London and then kind of a bomb here
Do you think that was because of your performance
Yes. I think I was, God, was I 23 years old?
And I definitely, the solipsism of my self-loathing,
I still thought I as an actor had the power
by whether or not I felt good in a scene.
I thought it was my fault. All right, we don't need
to talk about that anymore. I love you, Crispin.
What can we expect from you on Broadway?
Yes, 'cause I was afraid of sounding tone deaf
The idea of people Googling you fills my heart with fear
'cause oftentimes it comes up, how much is he worth?
Why did he break up with that person?
Why did he so bad in such and such?
But I think the internet makes it seem like
that very small percentage of people writing those questions
are a lot more than they actually are.
Well, what you find out is most of them are 11.
And you're like, oh. [upbeat music]
