Ethan Hawke

Yeah.

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...

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.