Ethan Hawke has revealed that it’s ‘difficult’ for him to re-watch the movie Before Sunrise, saying, ‘Who I was then is different to who I am now’.
The 1995 movie was the first film in the Before trilogy, which spanned 27 years and also included 2004’s Before Sunset and 2013’s Before Midnight.
The Richard Linklater movies, starred Ethan and Julie Delpy as romantic strangers Jesse and Celine, who met on a train and disembarked in Vienna to spend the night together.
Speaking to , Ethan said: ‘There’s a lot of myself and my reality in those movies. They’re as deeply connected to me as anything could be.’
He added: ‘I can’t look at Before Sunrise now without remembering, so vividly, that time period. Who I was then is so different from who I am now; it’s difficult for me to watch it and exorcise it from my actual life.’
In 2005, between the second and third instalment, Ethan split from his wife of five years Uma Thurman, and the breakdown of their relationship was something the movies’ director encouraged him to explore in the film.
He continued: ‘It was really nerve wracking to do. It was scary. Rick was really interested in blurring the line between character and actor in order to give the film a subconscious. We put a lot of ourselves into those movies.’
Meanwhile, Ethan has revealed how the Moon Knight director Mohamed Diab before he joined the Marvel series.
Speaking in a press conference, Mohamed said: ‘Everyone sees [Ethan] as this great legendary, independent film actor, and joining the superhero world is something big.
‘So when [lead star] Oscar [Isaac] approached him and then I talked to him about it, we pitched him the idea, but I told him, ‘Please don’t read the script.’ Not that the script is bad, but when you work with him, you have to get from him.
‘He told me, ‘This was the first time in 35 years that I signed something without reading a script.’ And he did it.’
Ethan plays cult leader Arthur Harrow, who is associated with the ‘Devourer of the Dead’ Egyptian god Ammit in the Disney Plus series.
