Richard Linklater

verbal ability.

You know, you're portraying a genius, you know, one of the great wits, one of the great lyricists who ever lived.

And Ethan had that ability.

We just had to get the body right, which was, it was fun.

It was fun to see him transform.

It was fun to see Ethan work so hard, to see my friend push to his absolute limit, you know, and on every single level you could as a performer.

He was like, I think I'm at the edge of my talent.

And I go, yeah, me too.

You know, this is tough, but...

We did something that was really, really challenging for us.

So that was fun.

Well, Robert Kaplow, the writer, this is kind of an imagined evening, but it's all based on fact.

Hart was there.

He did go with his mom.

He did, you know, it's all kind of imagined, the people he encounters in that.

And Hart, there's, you know, there's some biographies, you know, a pretty good one fairly recently called A Ship Without a Sail.

So you dig into everything you can get your hands on, but it's pretty much an imaginative exercise.

Yeah.

That's Larry Hart right there.

He was the ship without the sail.