Maya and Ethan Hawke are opening up concerning the experiences that include being top-of-the-line identified father-daughter duos in Hollywood.
Ethan and his 25-year-old daughter Maya — whom he shares along with his ex, Uma Thurman — are presently selling their new film, Wildcat.
The indie movie is a Fifties interval piece directed by Ethan, which stars Maya because the late American novelist Flannery O’Connor as she struggles to get her first novel printed.
Regardless of the truth that the idea for the movie was her thought, Maya just lately admitted that she was somewhat nervous about collaborating along with her dad on the mission in mild of the continuing debate about nepotism in present enterprise.
“I had moments of insecurity about it whereas we had been capturing the film,” Maya confessed in a joint interview along with her dad for Selection. “However the web doesn’t have a variety of nuances.”
Praising Ethan, she added: “My dad has been a large instructor for me, and we need to work collectively. We like being with one another.”
In flip, Ethan got here to his daughter’s protection, quipping that he’s a “nepo dad” because of the truth that it was Maya who initially had the thought for the film.
“If somebody desires to criticize us for working collectively, that’s completely truthful,” he stated. “It’s a must to let folks have their opinion. You simply need to attempt to do an excellent job while you’re onstage.”
Reflecting on capturing the film collectively, Maya stated the method wasn’t the “cute father-daughter factor” that individuals may think, saying as a substitute that the “manufacturing’s calls for had been excessive.”
On high of this, she joked that she made a short-lived try to start out calling her dad by his first identify on set to look extra “skilled” to others round them.
“After which I spotted it was really extra distracting to folks,” she recalled. “They’d be like, ‘Why are you doing that?’ So I largely known as him ‘Dad.’”
Within the film — which premieres at this yr’s Toronto Movie Competition — Maya takes on quite a lot of smaller roles as characters in O’Connor’s quick tales. And whereas taking part in two of these characters, Maya has to have interaction in intercourse scenes.
In fact, the one challenge with that was that the scenes had been directed by her dad — which, as you’ll be able to think about, could have been somewhat uncomfortable for each events.
Nevertheless, this wasn’t the case for Maya and Ethan, who recalled that it was weirder for his or her colleagues than it was for them.
“We wanted to maintain Rafael and Cooper,” Ethan stated, referring to Maya’s costars Rafael Casal and Cooper Hoffman. “I believe it was bizarre for them. We had been so snug with it. I couldn’t care much less.”
Maya joked in return that they made certain to have an intimacy coordinator on set for her costars “in order that they felt protected and cozy,” and “not like they had been being spied on” by “some creepy dad,” as Ethan put it.