Hawke Cast

One summer can change everything... including the subject of this podcast?

Today we are focusing on the work of one MAYA HAWKE, Ethan's daughter who landed a prime role in Netflix's Stranger Things and had a genuinely moving character arc. Corey has never seen Stranger Things so I filled in some blanks while describing Maya's role and trying to decide if she acts and looks more like Ethan or Uma. I think she sounds exactly like him when she gets drugged by Russians, at the very least.

This episode contains spoilers for most of Stranger Things season three, especially story beats about Maya's character Robin. She's great in it! Congrats Maya! This show should end with season four!

Ah, Paris!

Emily Cohen returns to discuss the strange, sexy 2011 melodrama THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH. Ethan plays a disturbed writer whose affair with a mysterious woman played by Kristin Scott Thomas may be more than it seems. It's a tight 85 minutes so it might be worth your time!

This episode contains the first use of censorship in Hawke Cast history! Hope the bleep isn't too loud!

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Ethan has three novels. This is the most recent one, RULES FOR A KNIGHT, which is about his fictional ancestor Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke. It's goofy!

This ends up being mostly a discussion of the long ago days of Fox's Animation Domination, with some speculation on how Ethan spends his time.

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I made Corey and Elizabeth watch an animated VR short that Ethan narrated in 2016. It won an Emmy and YOU can watch it here!

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No one loves the old west like Ethan!

Ryan Duggan returns to discuss a barely-seen Ti West-directed film called IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE, in which Mr. Hawke plays a drifter with the best dog actor any of us have ever seen. Seriously, she's so talented!

The stacked cast of this film leads us down multiple rabbit holes, including the origin of Marvel's Nebula, Battlefield Earth, a Hawke GIF used by the GOP (boo!), noted lunatic Toby Huss, the GETAWAY conspiracy, and the still-missing Hawke film TONIGHT AT NOON.

IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE is a pretty good movie! Rent it off Google or something!

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Well here's a weird one!

Friend of the podcast Elizabeth Hopkins returns to discuss the little-seen 1995 film SEARCH AND DESTROY, the only film directed by American artist David Salle and produced by Martin Scorsese! Ethan plays cult leader Daniel Strong (Dennis Hopper)'s assistant who gets to slap Griffin Dunne around a bit.

We talk cults, the charm of Illeana Douglas, John Tuturro's wig, artistic ambitions, and "a strong female character with huge tits".

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Everybody, hands up! This is a podcast!

We have a new release this week, one that finally made its way to Boston: STOCKHOLM!

Directed by the same filmmaker who turned Ethan into Chet Baker for BORN TO BE BLUE, STOCKHOLM is the story of the 1973 bank hostage crisis from which the term "Stockholm syndrome" was born!

It's a good movie with a wonderfully cracked-out Ethan performance. Go see it! And keep Hawke-ing the skies!

Newsflash: We were on the radio in February to discuss Hawke Cast with Jim and Margery of WGBH!

WGBH graciously allowed us to put the audio of our Friday News Quiz on the Hawke Cast feed. If you haven't listened yet, please check it out! The audio quiz was VERY difficult!

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In January of 2005, one of the darkest years of film on record, Ethan Hawke found himself in a modern remake of John Carpenter's ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13. And it turned out to be a lot of fun!

Michael Roberson joins the five-timers club of Hawke Cast guests and joins us for a discussion of this 'pretty good' remake. We talk fashion, tertiary characters, fun action scenes, and how the female characters are mostly sidelined for no real reason. Maria Bello deserves better!

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Today, March 20th, is the second anniversary of Hawke Cast! Ain't that something special?

To celebrate, we recorded an episode about one of Ethan's rare TV roles, because leaving anything out at this point is just irresponsible. Unfortunately, this role just so happens to be a voice on Adult Swim's worst (?) show, Robot Chicken. These jokes have aged worse than milk left on a porch. Also Ethan is in it for like 15 seconds. Why did we do this?

Don't say we've never done anything for you. Never watch Robot Chicken. But always keep Hawke-ing the skies.