Interview with actor Ethan Hawke, Golden Panther Award at Lucca Film Festival

Ethan Hawke is one of the main guests of the 20th Lucca Film Festival. Protagonist of a masterclass with university students, audience and press, the actor, director, writer and musician received the Golden Panther Award for his achievements. To celebrate him, Lucca Film Festival showcased a very effective selection of the titles that made his acting and directing career. From Peter Weir’s drama Dead Poets Society (1989), a critical success starring Robin Williams as the protagonist which launched his career as an actor to the Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy that he also co-wrote the screenplay of, along with his co-star Julie Delpy. Among his films as director, the festival presented Blaze, Seymour: an Introduction and his latest work, Wildcat, as an italian premiere. The film stars Hawke’s daughter, actress and songwriter Maya Hawke in the role of American novelist Flannery O'Connor. When asked which moment of his life he’s the most nostalgic about, Ethan Hawke answers: “I get nostalgic about basically everything, strangely even about the darkest period in my life because I was growing”.