Ethan Hawke is Hard to Find
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ETHAN HAWKE IS HARD TO FIND
Does suffering precede all greatness?
That’s the prime question at the heart of Wildcat, a Flannery O’Connor biopic co-written and directed by Ethan Hawke (Training Day, Before Sunrise trilogy).
Hawke discussed how he was plagued by the fear of making a boring biopic:
“We would describe this movie as a young woman dying of lupus who really wants to be a writer, but she fails constantly, and she's really unlikable, and she lives in the Jim Crow South and doesn't really deal with racism. Think it's a great idea? The answer is no.”
He continued: