Terry Gross
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Fresh Air
Ethan Hawke
Oh, and River Phoenix, who you worked with, died of an overdose.
Fresh Air
Ethan Hawke
It's not uncommon for talented artists to have a self-destructive side or a need for the kind of medication that they believe, you know, the addiction provides for.
Fresh Air
Ethan Hawke
Do you feel like you understand why those two things so often go together?
Fresh Air
Ethan Hawke
So River Phoenix, you made your first movie with him, The Explorers.
Fresh Air
Ethan Hawke
So he died at age 23 in 1993 of an OD of morphine and cocaine.
Fresh Air
Ethan Hawke
Were you ever seduced by the relief of addictive drugs?
Fresh Air
Ethan Hawke
The film Boyhood was shot, directed by Richard Linklater, who just directed you in Blue Moon.
Fresh Air
Ethan Hawke
And as this family aged, as the children and the divorced parents aged...