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The prolific actor, producer and filmmaker, whose \u201cBefore Sunrise<\/a>\u201d and \u201cBefore Midnight<\/a>\u201d premiered at the festival (among many others), was back at the festival with \u201cThe Weight<\/a>,\u201d from director Padraic McKinley<\/a>. Set in Oregon in 1933, Sundance<\/a> programming describes \u201cThe Weight<\/a>\u201d as a \u201ctense, atmospheric Depression-era crime drama\u201d following a group of \u201cdesperate convicts on a perilous journey through a physically and morally treacherous backcountry.\u201d<\/p>\n The script was still a work-in-progress when producers Nathan and Simon Fields<\/a> (Fields Entertainment<\/a>) presented it to McKinley<\/a>, who sent it to Hawke<\/a> \u2014 but there was \u201csomething cool about the world of it,\u201d the actor recalled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ethan Hawke has been to Sundance Film Festival many, many times before. The prolific actor, producer and filmmaker, whose \u201cBefore Sunrise\u201d and \u201cBefore Midnight\u201d premiered at the festival (among many others), was back at the festival with \u201cThe Weight,\u201d from director Padraic McKinley. Set in Oregon in 1933, Sundance programming describes \u201cThe Weight\u201d as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2253327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2253326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ethan-Hawke-Recounts-the-Indie-Inventiveness-That-Brought-Thriller-\u2018The.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253328,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253326\/revisions\/2253328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}