During a conversation at the BFI London Film Festival on Friday, Linklater discussed Hawke’s impressive performance in the film, in which he appears unrecognizable with a combover, fake teeth and standing 10 inches shorter.
“It was such a challenge. It was like, Ethan had to transform,” Linklater said. “He’s five feet tall, he’s bald with the combover, just everything about him had to change. I called it like, a kind of erasure of Ethan.”
Because “every gesture of Ethan” had to “go away,” Linklater said he felt himself becoming a “naggy director,” to the point where Hawke — his frequent collaborator of three decades who has starred in nine of his films — got annoyed.
“I mean, he said if he didn’t know me so…
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