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Ethan Hawke On His Flannery O’Connor Biopic ‘Wildcat’: “I Don’t Know Who Cares About Literature Anymore … But I Know I Do”
Ethan Hawke-directed 'Wildcat' opens this weekend, with Maya Hawke starring as the reclusive, brilliant writer Flannery O'Connor.
One of nation’s most evocative, brilliant and ambitious writers, O’Connor was diagnosed with Lupus at 24 and reluctantly settled in with her mother, played by Laura Linney, at a dairy farm in Georgia, continuing to write until she died in 1964 at age 39. My mom sold college textbooks in Atlanta, Georgia, when I was a kid and she fell in love with Flannery O’Connor’s writing when we were down there. If you take it really seriously, you can build upon shared enthusiasms and, like a good band, you can use your own intimacy to dig deep into making something worth people’s time.
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