During a recent career retrospective video interview with Vanity Fair, the Black Phone 2 actor opened up about what he observed from watching filmmaker Peter Weir direct the late Williams.
“I’m watching him direct Robin Williams, not an easy thing to do, ’cause Robin was a comic genius. But dramatic acting was still new to Robin at that time,” Hawke recalled. “And watching that relationship like, in the room — I was four feet away while they’re talking about performance — and that was something you don’t unsee.”
He continued, “Robin Williams didn’t do the script, and I didn’t know you could do that. If he had an idea, he just did it. He didn’t ask permission. And that was a new door that was opened to my brain,…
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