Who Are Maya Hawke’s Parents?

Maya Hawke’s portrayal of Robin Buckley, the quirky Hawkins teen who befriends Steve Harrington within the third season of “Stranger Things,” shortly made her a fan favourite. As it seems, Maya’s foray into the Upside Down wasn’t her intro to Hollywood, although; she’s been round purple carpet royalty her total life. The 25-year-old actor is the kid of two main stars: Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke.

Thurman is greatest identified for her roles as Mia in “Pulp Fiction” and The Bride in “Kill Bill: Volume 1” and “Kill Bill: Volume 2.” Meanwhile, Ethan is understood for taking part in Jesse within the Before trilogy and starred within the June 2022 horror movie “The Black Phone.” The pair met on the set of “Gattaca” in 1996 and married in 1998. They had two youngsters, Maya and Levon Hawke, earlier than separating in 2003 and divorcing in 2005. Ethan later married Ryan Shawhughes, and the pair went on to have two daughters, Clementine Jane Hawke and Indiana Hawke. Thurman has one different little one, daughter Luna, with ex-fiancé Arpad Busson.

Maya is properly conscious of the truth that she comes from a particularly well-known household. In a Sept. 5 interview with Variety that additionally featured her father, she described her household as “the boring, indie Kardashians” — which might most likely be extra correct if her dad and mom have been indie darlings, not Hollywood superstars. Later on, Ethan acknowledged the actual fact he is a part of a rising dynasty. “Put simply, I’m a nepo dad!” he stated. “And I’m not embarrassed about it.”

In the interview, the pair have been selling their biopic “Wildcat,” which stars Maya as the author Flannery O’Connor. Ethan directed the film and wrote the script together with Shelby Gaines, although within the interview, he confirmed that the film was all his daughter’s concept. As for why she requested her dad to make the film alongside her, Maya stated, “I don’t know anyone else that interested in art, faith and America.”

Still, it seems like her nepo child standing typically anxious her whereas they have been making the movie. “I had moments of insecurity about it while we were shooting the movie,” she stated. “But the internet doesn’t have a lot of nuances. My dad has been a massive teacher for me, and we want to work together. We like being with each other.” Later, Ethan stated that whereas some individuals discouraged him from engaged on the film together with his daughter, he noticed no motive to be. “I started thinking, ‘What am I not seeing? What am I missing?'” he stated. “But this is our safe place . . .”

Though Maya’s dad and mom appear totally invested in her profession now, apparently, they initially discouraged her from pursuing appearing. “They were wary of the public life side of acting and the difficulties of that,” she informed The Guardian in 2021. “They also tried to protect me from falling into acting. They wanted to ensure I had a strong enough backbone, my own passion for it and work ethic. They didn’t want to cart me along every red carpet or have me do bit-parts in their movies.”

Still, her dad knew she’d been bitten by the appearing bug from a younger age. In their Variety interview, Ethan revealed that his daughter’s future turned clear to him throughout a gown rehearsal of William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” which he’d introduced Maya to as a result of she did not have a babysitter. When she needed to remain and watch the three-hour present another time after the primary run-through, Hawke knew. “Maya was like, ‘Can I please watch it again?'” Ethan recalled. “It’s a three-hour play. It’s Shakespeare. I went, ‘Wow. It’s on.’ If you want to watch a Shakespeare play dress rehearsal two times in a row when you are 12 . . .”

Needless at the moment, his prediction was appropriate. Maya went on to star as Jo March within the 2017 BBC adaption of “Little Women.” In 2019, she performed Manson member of the family Linda Kasabian in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and that very same yr, she made her debut in “Stranger Things.” Regardless of their preliminary reservations, dad and mom Ethan and Thurman have since supported their daughter’s appearing endeavors.

“Ladies & Gentleman, get to know MAYA HAWKE. She’s the real thing,” Ethan wrote in 2019 in an Instagram publish about his daughter’s “Stranger Things” debut. Meanwhile, Thurman sang her daughter’s praises in an Access Hollywood interview in February 2021. “She’s, in the end, such a brilliant actress. Obviously, there’s nothing else that she would have ever done,” she stated. “Her talent was so big. It’s what she had to do.”

Maya talked about her mom throughout her June 28, 2022, episode of “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon,” the place she informed the host that Thurman’s abortion made it attainable for her to exist. “My mom wrote this really beautiful essay about her abortion that she got when she was really young and about how if she hadn’t had it, she wouldn’t have become the person that she had become, and I wouldn’t exist,” Maya stated. “Both of my parents’ lives would have been derailed if she hadn’t have had access to safe and legal healthcare — fundamental healthcare.” Thurman revealed an essay in regards to the abortion she had as a teen within the Washington Post in September 2021.

During an Aug. 11 look on “Live With Kelly and Ryan,” Maya spoke about how a lot she loves appearing alongside her dad and mom, as she’s set to star in a variety of future tasks with each of them. “My dad brought me in to play his daughter, Annie Brown, on this TV show he did called ‘The Good Lord Bird’ . . . this past year, my mom had me come in and play a two-scene part in this movie that she’s doing where we got to yell at each other,” Maya stated. “It was really, really fun. I love working with both of them. They’re really awesome, and they’re just amazing at their job.”

Even after they’re not engaged on a film set, it appears Maya has a fairly tight bond along with her dad and mom. During an Oct. 25 interview with People, Thurman bought candid about how she tries to keep up an excellent mother-daughter relationship with Maya. “Good communication,” she stated. “That is a big challenge, to make sure we keep communication healthy, strong, and open with your family.”

While Maya could also be tremendous near her dad and mom at the moment, that does not imply they have not had their ups and downs like every other household. During a June 20 look on “Watch What Happens Live,” Maya admitted to host Andy Cohen that she as soon as lied to Ethan about one thing main. “I lied about where [I was going],” stated Maya. Considering the place she was actually going, it is comprehensible why she lied. “I said that I was going to therapy, and I really went to lose my virginity.”

When Ethan pressed her to inform him the place she was, Maya had a retort that was actually one for the books. “I said, ‘How am I supposed to have secrets if I’m not allowed to tell lies?'” Maya recounted. Something tells us that line will not work on most dad and mom.

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