Ethan Hawke’s younger daughters keep him firmly on the ground.
Hawke recently appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert and revealed that Clementine, 17, and Indiana, 14, think his daughter Maya, who played Robin in Stranger Things, is more famous than him.
He further acknowledged that Maya’s role in the mega-hit “in some ways upended” his own career.
The family noticed this when they went to Tulsa for the comedy-drama, The lowland.
“We shot it in Tulsa, my wife [Ryan Shawhughes] was a producer on the show, we brought the whole family down there,” he explained. “The kids went to public school there in Tulsa. The kids came to me on set and the director says, ‘Is it hard to have a famous dad when you’re in a new school?'”
“They said, ‘It’s hard to have a famous sister. Nobody cares about my dad. My sister’s picture is all over the lockers,'” says the Black phone star added.
The actor also shared that he and his kids stayed up on New Year’s Eve to watch the Stranger Things finale.
“A lot of people in America watched Stranger Things, but not everyone watched their daughter [in Stranger Things] with their brothers and sisters on the side. We were invested,” Ethan said.
He then praised his daughter’s performance on the show, saying, “I have to say, hats off. I thought Maya did a great job. I thought the whole show did a great job.”
Ethan shares Maya and son Levon, 23, with his ex-wife, Kill Bill actress Uma Thurman. He shares Clementine and Indiana with wife Shawhughes.
