Ethan Hawke writes all of his lines by hand.
The 55-year-old film star is always meticulous in his preparation for a role, with him explaining that it helps him to be “extremely critical of the writer, in a positive way.”
The Hollywood star told Variety: “I hand-write everything like it’s my journal.”
He continued, “I’m not memorising from a typewritten page; I don’t want irrelevant stage directions to be part of it. I try to write it from memory, and then I look and see what I got wrong.”
“It also helps me be extremely critical of the writer, in a positive way. ‘It doesn’t seem like I would use that word four times. I think this is a better word.’ Then I record it, and I listen, and I see what I got wrong,” Ethan added.
“Take Billie Eilish’s Birds of a Feather. I know all the lyrics to that song. I don’t know how I know all the lyrics to that song. I absorbed it at coffee shops and on the car radio, and it’s in me now,” he elaborated.
Ethan Hawke is also convinced that his approach makes a lot of logical sense.
The movie star concluded: “If you have a really big speech — Jon Voight taught me this — you unlace your shoe. And you have to do the speech lacing your shoe. If I was talking, lacing my shoe, it would be no problem. If I’m trying to remember, then it’s difficult to do.”
