Ethan Hawke

even the man has spent years of his life editing my performances so anytime he would see me he would say i saw you i saw you i saw you and he was i saw you ethan hawke and not larry and not larry and so the physical things are kind of you know they're kind of easy they're superficial ultimately if they don't unlock the soul of the man right um

Anybody can shave their head and do a comb-over.

But it was really the soul of a person who's loathing themselves.

And at the same time...

thinks they're smarter than everybody else.

And his intellect is his only power.

His pride in his work is his only self-worth.

And that is being stripped from him on this night.

I mean, imagine if you only worked with one other person for 25 years and you achieved incredible heights and this person now doesn't want to work with you anymore.

So it's truly heartbreaking for him because I think he's smart enough to know that the world is changing.

We're in the middle of the war.

The Jazz Age is being left behind.

Something new is happening, and he's not going to be a part of it.

And he feels a titanic plate shifting, you know, and he's being sent away to Antarctica or something.

I mean, that's what I think he feels.

The world is so stupid in the way that it –

imagines power and intelligence and grace and you know tall and handsome tall equating power tall equating authority it doesn't beauty is as beauty does we all know this um it was as a male i think it's even more different because i remember there's there was a man who was really helping me with the height and how to achieve it we were kind of trying to do it with old school stagecraft and

He had built a floor that he could put his feet through and then wear his shoes on his shin, so he really appeared a foot shorter than he did.

And his wife, who they'd been together for decades, came to him and was looking at him.

She said, wow, if you were this tall, I wouldn't love you.