Ethan Hawke opened up about his remorse for his daughter Maya Hawke not have an easy childhood.
“There were a lot of things about her childhood that were very, very hard and complicated, and things that I regret about her,” Ethan, 55, said of his eldest daughter in variety and CNN “Actors about actors” conversation with Sydney Sweeney which dropped on Thursday, December 11.
Ethan shares Maya, 27, and son Levon, 23, with his ex-wife Uma Thurman in addition to daughters Clementine Jean and Indiana, whom he welcomed with his current wife, Ryan Shawhughes Hawke.
Although Ethan did not reveal what difficulties Maya struggled with, the black phone The actor added that when she was “about 4 years old,” he could tell his daughter was going to be “an artist.”
Maya Hawke talked about her relationship with father Ethan Hawke and what it was like to follow in the footsteps of her famous family. “We’re like the independent, boring Kardashians,” Maya, 25, joked about her relatives in a Variety interview with Ethan, 52, published Tuesday, Sept. 5. Maya is the eldest daughter of the dead (…)
“I knew she was going to be really good,” she reflected. “This was her safe place, watercoloring, dancing, singing throughout her childhood.”
Ethan remembered how Maya was able to express herself freely.
“Anything to do with human communication was something she vibrated with,” he said. “I remember a teacher saying, ‘Maya, are you happy?’ Because they were worried about her. And he said something like, ‘Do you really think that’s the question?'”
Ethan shared that he was so proud of how deep his daughter was at such a young age.
“I thought, ‘I love this kid,'” he continued. “She was about 13. (Maya said) “I don’t think that’s a very interesting question. I think there are many more interesting questions than whether I am happy or not. am i happy no But I don’t aspire to be happy.”
Ultimately, Ethan was right about Maya, as she has become a star in her own right. Maya has appeared in several films, including Once upon a time in Hollywood, Get revenge, Asteroid City, teacher and more She is best known for her leading role as Robin Buckley in strange things. Maya also has several projects in the works, including upcoming films just one night, wishful thinking i The Hunger Games: Rising Sun in the Harvest.
Earlier this year, Ethan explained how his daughter didn’t need any advice from him to launch her career.
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“She didn’t care what I thought. There was no stopping it, and that’s the right attitude. Because if that’s the attitude you have, it really can’t go wrong. My line on that is, if your focus is what you can give the arts, you’re going to be very happy. And if your focus is what the arts can give you, you’re really unhappy,” Ethan said in October. AARP. “But if you really love it and you’d like to teach it and you’d like to be a part of it in any way, then good things happen.”
That same month, Maya shared that one of her father’s performances inspired her to become an actress.
“I’m always asked what movies made me an actress,” she said in an interview in October others. “But really, the three things that made me want to be an actress were the things my dad did The winter tale with Rebecca Hall(i Lily Rabe) in The Merchant of Venice i as you like. These three shows made me realize: this is the kind of woman I want to be, with this kind of strength and grace.”