Ethan Hawke

That's what they called it.

And it was wild.

And I remember we drove into Paramount Studios.

You know, you can picture it.

the image from The Godfather, and you had the big gates.

And my grandmother had always wanted to be a movie star.

Wow.

You know, and she was from here.

She's from Austin, Texas.

Well, really Fort Worth.

But, you know, she would talk about going to see Gone with the Wind at the Paramount here in Austin, you know.

And she would watch Gone with the Wind, you know, three times a week.

And she had dreamed of being a movie star.

And I remember we were in a big van driving me to set the first day, and we went through the gates of...

paramount opening up and she was smoking an eve cigarette in the van of course it's 1984 and she's just like yeah my first time in hollywood as a fucking guardian you know and uh and so the whole child actor thing is was a trip and i finished the movie and there's a lot of drama um involved in that if i was to complete that story

But I finished it.

The movie was a big turkey.

How old were you at the time?

14.

River and I were both 14.