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‘Making a Movie About Religion Feels Dangerous Right Now’
Ethan and Maya Hawke discuss closet Christians, American sins, and making a film about faith.
Even tougher for the Hawkes is how they’re supposed to sell themselves, as both a father-daughter and director-actor pair behind a movie with explicitly personal themes that requires them to hit the promotional trail to get some of the aforementioned asses in seats. The three of us are having lunch in Flatiron to discuss Wildcat, a sort-of biopic of O’Connor that follows the young southern writer as she struggles to become a worthy artist while pondering God, ethics, mortality (she was diagnosed with lupus at 24 and died at 39), the point of suffering, and her difficult relationship with her mother. And so I brought it when he was shooting Magnificent Seven, and we just read it together in his trailer out loud, and it was a really nice way that we connected to each other, because she was a young woman who was going through all these young-woman issues, but she was also a deep thinker and an author and an artist and a writer and a spiritualist.
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