Ethan Hawke

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Wikidata Q484615: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Dead Poets Society (1989); Alive (1993); Reality Bites (1994); Before Sunrise (1995); Gattaca (1997); Training Day (2001); Boyhood (2014); First Reformed (2017); A Midnight Clear; Explorers; The Newton Boys; The Purge; White Fang. Count them as director (0 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

The Big Chill (1983): 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through Reality Bites (1994), which they acted in: The Big Chill ⇒ Reality Bites (the host's read). Reality Bites is the young-person reaction to the sold-out generation The Big Chill depicts.
    “And then that's why like reality bites hits and you see reality bites and you're like, oh, that's why Troy is like, fuck everything.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

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What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (1) everyone in directing

Acting (18) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (7)

  1. career (career): Ethan Hawke → Dead Poets Society. Pre-Reality Bites Hawke was known as the Dead Poets guy, not a counterculture hero.
    “The dead poets guy?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:06:30 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Ethan Hawke → Before Sunrise. Before Sunrise the next year cemented Hawke as the Gen X icon.
    “he does before sunrise the next year, and that pretty much cements what most people think of Ethan Hawke for the next like 20 years.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:06:43 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Ethan Hawke → Lisa Loeb. Hawke directed the video for Loeb's 'Stay', the soundtrack song.
    “And then Ethan Hawke directed the video, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Ethan Hawke → Training Day. Hawke's real apex is Training Day, which gave him any career opportunity he wanted.
    “he does training day and all of a sudden he can make any career opportunity he wants.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:31 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Ethan Hawke → Reality Bites. A shot from Reality Bites, not another film, runs in his Oscar in-memoriam montage as shorthand.
    “When he dies in the Oscar montage, it's a shot from reality bites.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Ethan Hawke → Gattaca. Gattaca helped move Hawke out of the Troy typecast.
    “Gattica flip that?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:30:36 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Ethan Hawke → First Reformed. Hawke says he has dedicated his life to work that deserves an Oscar and wants First Reformed to deserve it.
    “I want 1st reformed to deserve it.”
    The Big Picture · The Big Picture: A Ringer Movies Podcast · 0:00:37 · Ethan Hawke (0.70 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Ethan Hawke → Dead Poets Society. Hawke says finding Troy let him escape his Todd Anderson character.
    “I had really found a character with Todd Anderson in Dead Poets Society.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:34:28 · Ethan Hawke (0.80 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Ethan Hawke → The Purge. Blumhouse movies like The Purge make Hawke financially best-positioned now.
    “Financially, he's probably in the best position because he made the purge”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:05:14 · Chuck Klosterman (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Ethan Hawke → Before Sunrise. Hawke owned a more likable variation of Troy in Before Sunrise, which is why Ryder 'won' Reality Bites.
    “play a variation of the, a much more likable version of somebody who's in the sphere of this character and kind of own that movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:28:37 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): Ethan Hawke → James Franco. A modern actor like James Franco could not pull off Hawke's band performance.
    “Like, think about if this is 10 years later, it's James Franco.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:05 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Ethan Hawke → A Midnight Clear. Ryder demanded Hawke after seeing him in A Midnight Clear.
    “She saw him in a midnight clear and demanded that he played short.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:55:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Ethan Hawke: The song 'Stay' scene: Hawke singing Violent Femmes is shockingly good, and no actor like James Franco could do it.
    “Incredible violent femme song.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:40:54 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Ethan Hawke: Simmons overheard Hawke at a Brooklyn pasta shop asking a writer whether a character was Nick Cave or Jeff Tweedy.
    “the thing is, I don't really know who this character is, is he Nick Cave?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:06:12 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Ethan Hawke: Hawke says he did Reality Bites after struggling to find a character post Dead Poets Society and 'found a new voice'.
    “I found a new voice, a new energy”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:34:39 · Ethan Hawke (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Ethan Hawke: Playful aside imagining Ethan Hawke spending Oscar night in Brooklyn or doing a True West matinee.
    “Yeah. Okay, shout out to Ethan Hawke.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:15:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Ethan Hawke: Hawke says people he has met three times email him saying he will definitely get an Oscar nomination.
    “Send me an email like, you're definitely gonna get nominated for an Oscar this year.”
    The Big Picture · The Big Picture: A Ringer Movies Podcast · 0:00:27 · Ethan Hawke (0.70 sure it was them)