Ethan Hawke Says Robin Williams Taught Him The Beauty Of Acting
There are some people in every actor’s life who inspired them beyond just the craft, but as a human being. That person for Ethan Hawke was Robin Williams. He recently opened up on Sunday Today and revealed that the late comedian changed his whole perception of acting while on the set of 1989’s Dead Poets Society.
“He gave me the first taste of what acting could be. When it goes really well, you disappear and you’re in service of a larger story,” he explained. “I did a scene with Robin, he asked me to sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world. It was an amazing experience because the deeper into that scene I got, by the time the day was over I couldn’t remember what had happened.”
“It was the first taste of how positive and how beautiful performance could be,” he added. “It’s part of a collective imagination when something goes right like that it has reverberations that last a long time.”
We’re never going to look at this movie the same!
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