Ethan Hawke

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.

We... But see, we look so young in that picture, right?

But you got to understand, you know, when you're that age, you think you're dying to be 18, dying to be 16.

We went off, River and I stole a pack of Camel cigarettes because we both wanted to be like James Dean.

And, um...

And we had a lot of fun.

That's the truth.

But the movie came out, and I remember River and I going to the bathroom at the premiere.

And we'd grown a lot from the time we shot the movie to the time it came out.

And nobody in the bathroom really recognized us.

And they were all talking about what a turkey the movie was, how terrible it was.

And I remember just looking in their eyes and like, it wasn't the narrative we thought it was.