{"id":2295860,"date":"2026-02-23T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2295860"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:13:10","slug":"blue-moon-star-ethan-hawke-on-his-first-lead-actor-oscar-nom-why-the-film-is-a-decade-long-dream-and-his-friendship-with-director-richard-linklater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/blue-moon-star-ethan-hawke-on-his-first-lead-actor-oscar-nom-why-the-film-is-a-decade-long-dream-and-his-friendship-with-director-richard-linklater\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blue Moon\u2019 Star Ethan Hawke on His First Lead Actor Oscar Nom, Why the Film Is a \u2018Decade-Long Dream\u2019 and His Friendship With Director Richard Linklater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000160\/\">Ethan Hawke<\/a> has been making movies for decades. But it took a role his longtime collaborator <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000500\/\">Richard Linklater<\/a> dreamed up \u2014 born out of years of shared theater trips and a mutual love of the stage \u2014 to finally earn him his first lead actor Academy Award nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody else really would\u2019ve thought of me for this character,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2297856\/\">Hawke<\/a> said in Variety\u2019s \u201cFor the Love of the Craft: The Nominees\u201d video. \u201cBut because he knows me so well, he knew how passionately I would feel about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawke, nominated for best actor for his portrayal of lyricist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0366414\/\">Lorenz Hart<\/a> in Linklater\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32536315\/\">Blue Moon<\/a>,\u201d said he first read the script more than 10 years ago. The two have long bonded over a shared love of theater. They first met when Linklater came to see Hawke in a play and the script felt like a natural extension of that relationship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Hawke has been making movies for decades. But it took a role his longtime collaborator Richard Linklater dreamed up \u2014 born out of years of shared theater trips and a mutual love of the stage \u2014 to finally earn him his first lead actor Academy Award nomination. \u201cI don\u2019t think anybody else really would\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2295861,"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-2295860","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\/02\/\u2018Blue-Moon-Star-Ethan-Hawke-on-His-First-Lead-Actor.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295860","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=2295860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295862,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295860\/revisions\/2295862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}