Maya and Ethan Hawke are opening up concerning the experiences that include being top-of-the-line recognized father-daughter duos in Hollywood.
Ethan and his 25-year-old daughter Maya — whom he shares along with his ex, Uma Thurman — are at the moment selling their new film, Wildcat.
The indie movie is a Fifties interval piece directed by Ethan, which stars Maya because the late American novelist Flannery O’Connor as she struggles to get her first novel revealed.
In spite of the truth that the idea for the movie was her concept, Maya just lately admitted that she was just a little nervous about collaborating along with her dad on the undertaking in mild of the continuing debate about nepotism in present enterprise.
“I had moments of insecurity about it while we were shooting the movie,” Maya confessed in a joint interview along with her dad for Variety. “But the internet doesn’t have a lot of nuances.”
Praising Ethan, she added: “My dad has been a massive teacher for me, and we want to work together. We like being with each other.”
In flip, Ethan got here to his daughter’s protection, quipping that he’s a “nepo dad” because of the truth that it was Maya who initially had the concept for the film.
“If someone wants to criticize us for working together, that’s totally fair,” he stated. “You have to let people have their opinion. You just have to try to do a good job when you’re onstage.”
Reflecting on taking pictures the film collectively, Maya stated the method wasn’t the “cute father-daughter thing” that individuals may think, saying as a substitute that the “production’s demands were high.”
On high of this, she joked that she made a short-lived try to begin calling her dad by his first title on set to appear extra “professional” to others round them.
“And then I realized it was actually more distracting to people,” she recalled. “They’d be like, ‘Why are you doing that?’ So I mostly called him ‘Dad.’”
In the film — which premieres at this 12 months’s Toronto Film Festival — Maya takes on plenty of smaller roles as characters in O’Connor’s quick tales. And whereas taking part in two of these characters, Maya has to have interaction in intercourse scenes.
Of course, the one difficulty with that was that the scenes have been directed by her dad — which, as you’ll be able to think about, could have been just a little uncomfortable for each events.
However, this wasn’t the case for Maya and Ethan, who recalled that it was weirder for his or her colleagues than it was for them.
“We needed to take care of Rafael and Cooper,” Ethan stated, referring to Maya’s costars Rafael Casal and Cooper Hoffman. “I think it was weird for them. We were so comfortable with it. I couldn’t care less.”
Maya joked in return that they made certain to have an intimacy coordinator on set for her costars “so that they felt safe and comfortable,” and “not like they were being spied on” by “some creepy dad,” as Ethan put it.
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