Ethan Hawke

I'd found this apartment that was amazing.

I hope this isn't boring, but I think it's a funny story.

So it's my first day with Chris, and I'm really trying to impress him.

I've ripped this shot off from this French film I've seen.

It's amazing.

You're gonna come into, his character orders a bottle of whiskey, and the guy delivers a bottle of whiskey to the room.

And in my idea,

In this apartment, you could walk from the living room into the bedroom, and from the bedroom to the bathroom, and then out of the bathroom into the kitchen, and then the kitchen opened back up into the living room.

It was one of those New York City square apartments in the Chelsea Hotel, right?

And I showed him this path I wanted him to take.

And he was going to turn on the lights in this room and he was going to put on a cowboy hat while he's talking on the phone.

He's going to look in the mirror and point the thing and he's going to walk in the bathroom and flick that light on and then slam the mirror shut and then walk out and then sit down in the kitchen right where he was, pop open the whiskey and pour himself a glass right as he says the last line of the monologue.

And he looks at me and he goes...

And I was like, uh, no, no, not really, no.

He goes, I'm an alcoholic.

I said, oh, okay.

His character's name was Bud.

He says, Bud's an alcoholic.

I'm like, yeah.

He goes, so you mean to tell me I order a bottle of whiskey, I'm about to fall off the wagon, and I don't open the fucker until I walk through this room, turn on a light, try on a cowboy hat, flip on a light, slam a mirror, and then sit down?