Ethan Hawke
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I mean, it was just, it was absolutely incredible to be sucked out of suburban America and brought to LA.
My first scene partner was River Phoenix.
And all of a sudden I'm in LA and, you know, my mom couldn't quit her job or anything.
So my mom had a really turbulent relationship with her mother.
But her mother and she didn't really know each other.
And so her mother said she'd be my guardian.
And my mom designed this as a way to maybe have a family healing.
But my grandmother was a piece of work.
And we lived together in Koreatown.
That's what they called it.
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.
You know, and she was from here.
But, you know, she would talk about going to see Gone with the Wind at the Paramount here in Austin, you know.