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How Ethan Hawke prepared to play his most terrifying character for ‘The Black Phone’

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00:01Wolves, teeth, skulls, our dreams speak to us and all these things we're afraid of.
00:08So I like building characters out of a dream landscape.
00:13I have complete awareness that none of us know why we're born and why we have to die
00:18and where we were before we were born and where we go when we die.
00:22I don't think that any of us really understand what we're doing here, so I'm completely open.
00:28When you're playing a lunatic person who kills children,
00:33I don't naturally want to research said person that much.
00:37I understand that madness exists and I understand there's sickness in the world
00:41and I can access different elements of madness or sickness to do that.
00:46It's a little bit like playing, I don't know, Incubus or the Darth Vader
00:51or your job is to represent evil.
00:59I like building off iconic visions from dreams.
01:03You know, I kind of think we often get spoken to about
01:07so much of our dreams are also about handling fear.
01:11You know, how many dreams often, sometimes they're beautiful and everything,
01:16but more often than not they deal with processing anxiety.
01:21She's so good on that show and she kind of gets the milieu and that world
01:26that I can imagine that people are going to ask her to do more of it.
01:32You know, they're so good. It makes it fun.
01:36I like, I was a child actor, so I have a lot of empathy for them,
01:40but they give me way more than I could give them.
01:43Their joy and love of like acting and playing
01:46and they're so excited to be in a movie.
01:49It's just fun to be near them.
01:51I'm so excited.
01:52I'm so excited.
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