Ethan and Maya Hawke put their bond to the test answering questions to see just how well they know each other. From their favorite pop divas to bad Broadway reviews, watch to see who knows the other best!
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00:00 - We know each other pretty well.
00:01 - Pretty well.
00:02 - Pretty well.
00:03 - Though you have had a very long and storied career.
00:05 There could be real gaps in my knowledge.
00:07 - Hopefully there's some gaps.
00:08 - In the times before Maya.
00:09 - You've got things to do, yeah.
00:11 (upbeat music)
00:13 - I'm Maya.
00:21 - I'm Ethan.
00:22 - And--
00:23 - We're gonna see how much we know about each other.
00:25 - That's true.
00:26 - We know our last names.
00:27 - We do know that, we know more about each other
00:29 than most people who will play this game.
00:32 - Yeah, but that doesn't mean we'll score high marks.
00:35 - Yeah, we think too much.
00:36 - So, yep.
00:38 - There we are.
00:38 - We're not very career focused
00:39 in our dinner table conversations, so.
00:42 What was Maya's first school play?
00:45 Can't believe I remember this.
00:49 - Well, there was so many that we're not gonna,
00:54 a little, yeah, okay, all right.
00:56 I'm gonna go with...
00:58 (dice clacking)
00:59 Okay.
01:00 - Oh, that is the right one!
01:03 Oh my God, I can't, that's what I was thinking of.
01:05 - You're cheating?
01:06 - No, I saw yours.
01:07 - Oh, that's cheating.
01:08 - Okay, that's cheating, all right.
01:10 I'm gonna lose this game,
01:11 but this was the first time
01:12 she made a very substantial impression.
01:15 - But my actual first performance was as Jenny
01:19 in "Jenny and the School for Cats."
01:20 I was one of three Jennys.
01:22 (buzzer buzzing)
01:23 But that was my first real performance.
01:26 - Her performance as the Artful Dodger,
01:29 people speak of it in hushed tones.
01:31 - We do have the DVD.
01:32 - Yeah, we do have the DVD.
01:33 We have the DVD for "Jenny and the School for Cats" too.
01:36 - Okay, well then, I will.
01:37 - Yeah, so I really should have gotten it.
01:38 That doesn't qualify in the level of performance
01:41 that our family aspires to.
01:44 - It's true, it's a very high standard.
01:46 - Technically, she's right.
01:47 - He gave me a very harsh review for this performance,
01:49 and at home I just cried myself to sleep.
01:52 - Not true.
01:53 - I worked much harder on my Artful Dodger.
01:55 - That was at beginning, so that's--
01:56 - No, it wasn't, it was at Brearley.
01:58 - Oh, it was, you're right.
02:00 - Sorry, you're doing great.
02:02 I'm really glad you messed up,
02:03 'cause now it gives me some freedom to mess up.
02:05 - Would Ethan rather go to a Rihanna or Lady Gaga concert?
02:10 - Ooh, interesting question.
02:11 I have a very fast answer,
02:13 because that information is really available online.
02:17 Ri-Ri, baby, by a long shot.
02:21 - That's what I thought.
02:21 But I have been to a Lady Gaga concert,
02:24 and I haven't been to a Ri-Ri.
02:25 - Well, that's partly why you would wanna go.
02:27 - All right, all right.
02:28 And 'cause, well, I took you to Lady Gaga, but yeah.
02:30 - Yeah, you did.
02:31 - My worst. - No, you didn't.
02:34 - Yeah, I did.
02:35 - No, you didn't.
02:36 - No, we went to see--
02:37 - Madonna, and we were sitting next to Lady Gaga.
02:40 I haven't been to a Lady Gaga concert.
02:42 Have you not either?
02:43 - Well, I thought I had.
02:44 - Well, no, it was Madonna.
02:45 - Yeah, so I was wrong.
02:47 Memory tricks.
02:48 - Memory does trick.
02:49 - Lady Gaga was sitting near us,
02:50 and that made a big impression.
02:51 - Yes, we did have an amazing year,
02:53 where we went to Madonna, Taylor, and Adele.
02:56 And it was a highly educational,
02:58 very motivational year for me.
03:00 It was some very good fathering.
03:02 - That was a good year.
03:03 - Yeah, well, we gotta go see Rihanna next.
03:05 - Yeah, we gotta go see Rihanna.
03:07 I've been caught by the paparazzi
03:08 openly flirting with Rihanna, and that's been a huge--
03:11 - Openly trying to.
03:12 - Yeah, trying to flirt.
03:14 So that's been to the family's shame.
03:17 So you're really touching a nerve.
03:19 - No, it's family pride.
03:21 - What was the name of the first song Maya wrote?
03:24 - I don't really remember the name,
03:25 but I remember the opening line.
03:28 - That's good enough.
03:30 That's the name.
03:31 All right.
03:33 - Life's not too easy.
03:37 - But is that the same one with,
03:38 has the motion of the ocean?
03:40 - I think the motion of the ocean is,
03:42 I mean, if it is, I stole it from Hairspray.
03:45 (Maya singing)
03:50 - You know, remember that one that you had about,
03:53 you wrote it in Nova Scotia.
03:54 - Oh, you stopped the river rolling in the wrong direction?
03:57 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:58 - That's the same one.
03:59 - That's the same one.
04:00 - That's the same one.
04:00 - All right, all right, all right.
04:01 - All right, so you got it right.
04:02 It's a river rolling, but the motion of the ocean.
04:04 It's very original.
04:06 - Yeah, Maya was always writing songs.
04:08 So that's very hard.
04:09 That was the first one that got consistent play.
04:13 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:14 - That one was made, that was a,
04:16 that made your set list at the dinner table
04:19 for a couple of years.
04:20 - For a couple of years, but I will say
04:21 it was an entire rip off of a song
04:25 from the Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana soundtrack.
04:28 I think she wrote a song that was like,
04:30 ♪ Life's not too ♪
04:32 ♪ Life's what you make it ♪
04:34 ♪ So let's make it rock ♪
04:36 ♪ Let's make it rock ♪
04:37 ♪ And use this life's not too easy ♪
04:39 ♪ When you've got it rough ♪
04:41 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:42 - So not very original, but you know,
04:46 I think it's a very important step
04:47 in the journey of all artists
04:48 is to initially copy other artists
04:51 and take credit for their work.
04:52 - If it worked for Bob Dylan, it can work for you.
04:55 - Which show marked Ethan's Broadway debut?
04:58 - Well, I mean, I know this.
05:03 I don't have to Wikipedia this.
05:05 - No, but it's your life.
05:06 - Okay.
05:07 - I knew my first school play too.
05:09 I think I might be wrong.
05:10 I'm not sure if this was on Broadway, but I'm gonna try.
05:13 The Seagull?
05:15 - Yeah. - Yeah.
05:17 - Which is really fun because I made my Broadway debut
05:21 with Laura Liddy.
05:22 - Yes, you did.
05:23 - Who stars in the movie we just made together.
05:24 So that is a very relevant question.
05:27 - This also, this got, it's got excellent reviews, right?
05:30 - Well, this was, mine was all about this
05:32 because this was a defining moment in my life
05:35 where you learn.
05:37 - What did they say about you?
05:39 - Ethan Hawke plays Constantine more concerned
05:41 with his pimples than his poetry.
05:44 Perhaps he should spend less time at the actor's studio
05:47 and more at the dermatologist.
05:50 How's that for your Broadway debut?
05:52 I thought I was gonna get "Not Since Marlon Brando"
05:56 and instead, instead I got a ass kicking.
06:01 - What film made Maya want to become an actor?
06:04 - We watch a lot of movies in this house
06:06 and I've wanted to be an actor of some kind for a long time.
06:10 There's a movie that's not really
06:12 when I wanted to be an actor,
06:13 it was when my brain was like, you showed it to me.
06:17 And it's when it all really started to sort of begin
06:21 being very, very interested in films.
06:24 - Okay.
06:26 - But later.
06:29 The Outsiders, Nashville.
06:36 - Oh, that's more accurate.
06:38 But that's when you were serious.
06:40 - That's why I gave that kind of prerequisite.
06:42 - Yeah, you're absolutely right.
06:44 I will say that--
06:45 - You just have Outsiders in the mind
06:45 'cause you just read it.
06:46 - I know, exactly.
06:47 But you did, that was, you did love that.
06:50 - Yeah.
06:51 - You did love that.
06:52 But yeah, Nashville was when you were like,
06:55 that's what I wanna do with my life.
06:56 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:57 - Not just be an actor,
06:57 but make something that feels as original and wild as that.
07:01 - And cool as that, yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:03 - But I will say that it's not a movie
07:06 that was the first time I knew you wanted to be an actor.
07:08 - That's true, should we go again?
07:10 - Yeah, can we go again?
07:11 - If it was the first time I knew she wanted to be an actor,
07:13 can we change the question?
07:15 Or we're changing the rules of the game.
07:16 - Okay, let's try that.
07:18 When did you know Maya wanted to become an actor?
07:21 - Okay. - All right.
07:22 The Bridge Project?
07:25 - Yes! - Yes!
07:25 - The same thing.
07:27 Which is, I said the tech rehearsal for Winter's Tale,
07:29 which was one of the plays
07:31 that was part of the Bridge Project,
07:32 which is I did a checkoff in Shakespeare in rep,
07:37 and we took it all around the world.
07:38 And I didn't have a babysitter for Maya,
07:41 so I brought her to the tech rehearsal,
07:43 which is insanely boring.
07:45 It's, we do the whole play, stopping and starting,
07:48 as they adjust the lights, not in costume.
07:51 And then we broke for dinner,
07:53 and I was gonna put her in a taxi home
07:56 to go be with your brother,
07:58 and we were gonna do the whole thing again.
08:00 And Maya was like, "Can I please watch again?"
08:03 And it's a three-hour play, it's Shakespeare, you were 12,
08:08 and she wanted to watch the whole play again,
08:10 mostly because you thought Rebecca Hall was so good.
08:13 - Yeah, she was really good.
08:15 I really liked Rebecca Hall in that play.
08:18 I was like, "Whatever she's doing, I need to understand."
08:21 - And Maya just sat out in the audience,
08:22 and I'm like, "Wow, okay, it's on."
08:24 If you wanna watch a Shakespeare play,
08:26 dress rehearsal two times in a row when you're 12,
08:29 that's what you're gonna-- - You have some serious issues.
08:31 - That's what you're gonna do with your life.
08:33 - How many Oscar nominations does Ethan have?
08:36 - Not enough.
08:38 - Yeah, agreed.
08:39 - Yeah, right.
08:40 - Okay, here we go.
08:47 One for Best Supporting Actor, two for Best Screenplay.
08:52 - Two for Best Supporting Actor.
08:54 - Two for Best Supporting Actor, one for Best Screenplay?
08:57 - Two for Best Screenplay.
08:57 - Wow, two both?
08:58 - Yeah.
08:59 - Wow, what was the other Best Supporting Actor?
09:01 - Boyhood.
09:02 - Oh yeah, I forgot about that one.
09:03 - Yeah, right. - Nice.
09:04 - I say 4,003, 'cause that's what I should have.
09:09 - Okay. - Yes, agreed.
09:10 And I say three, but it's four.
09:12 - Okay.
09:13 - I just, I've forgotten about that one,
09:16 'cause Patricia won, and you didn't.
09:18 - Yeah, and it's funny that Denzel won, and I didn't.
09:21 - Yeah, that's funny.
09:22 - Interesting, it's the lesser teammate theme.
09:25 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:26 - That bodes well for you.
09:27 - That's true, but you know, you're also very,
09:30 you're very, you make other people around you better.
09:33 - You heard it here, I'm supporting, and they win.
09:36 - Yeah, but you--
09:38 - It's like an assistant.
09:38 - What's the good, yeah, but I was gonna say that,
09:40 the team is, nevermind, it's like an assist.
09:44 - Yeah, you thinkin' of, you know, Scotty Pippen.
09:47 - That is exactly what I was thinking.
09:48 - Does Maya prefer FaceTime or texting?
09:52 - Oh. - Hmm.
09:53 - This could go either way, I have to say,
10:03 but I'm gonna go with this.
10:05 (pen clicking)
10:08 I said both.
10:10 - Oh, nice.
10:11 - Yeah.
10:12 - It really could go either way.
10:13 - Yeah.
10:14 - I, when, if I had the lean, I'd go FaceTime,
10:16 because--
10:17 - It's true.
10:17 - I don't really FaceTime with anyone else,
10:19 but you and your brother.
10:21 - We love to FaceTime.
10:22 - Yeah, so, but you also--
10:24 - We text a lot, too. - Enjoy good text, yeah.
10:25 - But you know what, actually, you're 100% right,
10:27 I'm wrong, I hate texting.
10:29 I never text people back, I don't enjoy it, I can't spell,
10:33 I find it really hard, I do it so much that I said both,
10:36 but I enjoy FaceTime.
10:37 - Yeah.
10:38 - I'll get on a FaceTime, fold my laundry,
10:40 walk around the house.
10:41 - You and your brother are the only ones that FaceTime me.
10:43 - Yeah, FaceTime all the time.
10:44 - I always think, like, can I do this?
10:47 - And then you pick up the phone and you're like,
10:49 "Hey, guys, hey, so I can't believe you can hear me
10:53 "from all the way in New York."
10:56 - That's true, it's so annoying and I can't get used,
10:58 that's really where I show my age, I think, the most.
11:01 - But you don't do it on the phone, on the phone you're like,
11:02 "I understand this machine."
11:04 - Yeah, I got that.
11:05 - And then you just take the phone a little far away
11:06 from your face and you're like, "Ahh!"
11:07 - Which filmmaker had the biggest influence
11:12 on Ethan as a director?
11:14 - Well, there's an obvious answer,
11:18 but there might be a more interesting one.
11:22 - That's hard for me to answer.
11:24 - Well, I'm not answering this movie specific.
11:27 - What do you mean?
11:29 Like, oh, influence on Wildcat?
11:31 - I'm not answering that question.
11:32 - Yeah, just talking in general.
11:33 - I'm talking to you as a director.
11:36 - I feel like these things,
11:37 people are supposed to be really funny.
11:38 - I know, we're really serious people.
11:41 - All right, ready?
11:42 Go. - Okay.
11:43 Rick.
11:44 - Yeah.
11:45 Link letter. - Link letter.
11:46 - Nicely done. - Thank you.
11:47 - All right. - Crushing it.
11:48 - Yeah.
11:49 Oh, there went my eraser.
11:52 - I made a joke that we were the boring,
11:55 like that our family, so many of us are working now,
11:57 that we're like the boring, indie Kardashians.
11:59 - Yeah, yeah.
12:01 - Like we're just--
12:02 - The boring, indie version. - The boring, ugly,
12:04 indie Kardashians.
12:05 - What is Maya's favorite movie theater snack?
12:08 - Movie theater snack?
12:11 There's so many winners there.
12:14 Okay.
12:14 - I think we should write down each other's.
12:16 I think I know yours.
12:18 - Okay.
12:19 - Sorry, we really like to change the rules of the game.
12:23 In our family, we have some members of the family
12:25 who read the instructions.
12:27 - And some who don't. - And some people who don't.
12:28 And you've got two that don't on your hands.
12:30 - Yeah, exactly.
12:31 I'm gonna try the one we talked about this morning.
12:35 All right.
12:36 - I think your favorite movie theater snack is Milk Duds.
12:39 - Definitely.
12:40 - And mine is a bottle of water and Sour Patch Kids.
12:43 - Bottle of water and Sour Patch Kids.
12:46 - Oh yeah.
12:47 - That's what we'll go out on.
12:49 - That was a success. - She's 100% right
12:50 on Milk Duds.
12:52 - I made one mistake.
12:53 - Which was?
12:54 - Getting your Oscar noms wrong.
12:56 - Boring.
12:58 - Yeah.
12:59 - That's a good mistake to make.
13:00 - Yeah.
13:01 - I'm glad that's not like heavily talked about in our family.
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