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Ethan Hawke says Harry Potter and Star Wars movies leave him disappointed that he's 'not a wizard or a Jedi'

Ethan Hawke compares Richard Linklater’s films to watching 'Harry Potter' or 'Star Wars' films, saying, 'When they are over, I feel slightly disappointed that I’m not a wizard or a Jedi.'

“If you go see Harry Potter or Star Wars or something, which I’ve seen a million times, and I love them, but when they are over, I feel slightly disappointed that I’m not a wizard or not a Jedi,” he joked. I feel that’s what Richard Linklater’s movies do, is remind you that it’s a miracle that we walk on Earth and that we breathe at all, and that there’s whales and giraffes and life is unbelievable if you don’t hyperbolize it.” Hawke said he learned to use this geometry to calibrate his own performances, too, once he realized "one of the ways that I could make my work different — in different keys or octaves or whatever — would be to really play with the genres."

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