Ethan Hawke

It's called the correlation of opposites.

Yeah.

He's two things simultaneously all the time.

He is incredibly jealous, and he's incredibly happy and proud of his friend.

He's gay and in love with a woman.

He's the most diminutive, smallest person in the room, and he's the biggest personality in the room.

The whole experience of making it...

I felt I was being asked to play two things at the same time, which is, of course, why I want to do it.

It was wonderful and it was like the way real people are.

But it's challenging.

Every now and then you do, you bump up against a part that presses you to the wall of your ability.

And you know you can never be as good as the part is demanding of you.

And that's a kind of thrilling spot to be in.

Well, it was illegal in 1943, so he does have to hide it.

Well, it was interesting.

I was being directed by a man who's directed me, and this is our ninth film collaboration.

So he knows every trick in my toolbox.

And he was really asking me to disappear.

He just wanted me to be Larry Hart.

And so...