Sundance veteran and newly-minted Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke had the honor of kicking off the night’s program and revealing the theme, Once Upon a Time. In honor of that, Hawke showed off his talent for storytelling by recalling the first time he met Redford during an audition for A River Runs Through It, the 1992 film directed by Redford and starring Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer and Tom Skerritt.
“The audition was this huge monologue and I loved Robert Redford so much, and I really wanted to impress him. I really wanted to get this part. I worked on the speech, I worked on a speech. I had this apartment in New York City,…
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