'Wildcat' Director Ethan Hawke

Published: April 30, 2024, 6:18 p.m.

The great actor-turned-director talks about developing the film for his daughter Maya Hawke (who stars as author Flannery O\u2019Connor) after "Stranger Things" blew up, wrestling with O\u2019Connor\u2019s history with racism, what he learned about directing from all the greats he\u2019s worked with as actor, and why the theme of creativity and what it means to be an artist has become the driving force behind so much of his own work as an artist at this stage of his career.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices