Ethan Hawke felt “shot from a cannon” in his latest film, Blue Moon.
Hawke and Richard Linklater’s last collaboration saw the actor memorize the entire script “like a play”, but without the weeks of preparation that usually accompany plays.
To portray Lorenz Hart in the biopic, The black phone star spent hours ‘memorizing that text’.
“I had more lines on my first day of filming Blue Moon than I probably had in 10 years combined,” he said. People. “It was just a dizzying amount of verbiage. And I’m very proud of that. I feel like I’m good at it.”
“It broke my brain,” he added with a smile.
He shared insight into how he did it, saying, “Memorizing for hours, just repeating it over and over again.”
Set in 1943, the film “takes place in real time on one set,” in a New York City bar near the play’s opening. Oklahoma!
“I had to know the whole movie as a play – without the six weeks of rehearsal for a play that you would have. So it was kind of like cannon shots,” he said.
Despite the hard work, “it never felt like a job to me,” said Hawke, who earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for the film.
Blue MoonEthan Hawke’s ninth collaboration with Linklater, also starring Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott.
