Hawke<\/a>\u2019s impressive performance in the film, in which he appears unrecognizable with a combover, fake teeth and standing 10 inches shorter.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was such a challenge. It was like, Ethan had to transform,\u201d Linklater said. \u201cHe\u2019s five feet tall, he\u2019s bald with the combover, just everything about him had to change. I called it like, a kind of erasure of Ethan.\u201d<\/p>\n
Because \u201cevery gesture of Ethan\u201d had to \u201cgo away,\u201d Linklater said he felt himself becoming a \u201cnaggy director,\u201d to the point where Hawke \u2014 his frequent collaborator of three decades who has starred in nine of his films \u2014 got annoyed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, he said if he didn\u2019t know me so…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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