{"id":2301561,"date":"2026-02-26T18:14:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2301561"},"modified":"2026-02-26T18:14:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:14:53","slug":"ethan-hawkes-first-acting-award-was-a-bong-from-high-times-magazine-with-blue-moon-hes-aiming-even-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ethan-hawkes-first-acting-award-was-a-bong-from-high-times-magazine-with-blue-moon-hes-aiming-even-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethan Hawke\u2019s First Acting Award Was a Bong From \u2018High Times\u2019 Magazine. With \u2018Blue Moon\u2019 He\u2019s Aiming Even Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">After getting an Oscar nomination for his role as famed Broadway composer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0366414\/\">Lorenz Hart<\/a> in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32536315\/\">Blue Moon<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000160\/\">Ethan Hawke<\/a> couldn\u2019t help but reminisce on his long-lasting friendship with the film\u2019s director, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000500\/\">Richard Linklater<\/a>. \u201cI have to express my gratitude to Linklater because my first acting award I ever won was a bong from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0231655\/\">High Times<\/a> magazine for my performance in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0275719\/\">Tape<\/a> as the best stoned performance of the year. And, Rick just keeps giving me these things, so I\u2019m incredibly grateful,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2297856\/\">Hawke<\/a> says.<\/p>\n<p>In the indie film, Hawke transforms himself into the diminutive composer, who regales attendees at Sardi\u2019s bar with anecdotes about his career highs in the theater and bemoans the loss of his former partnership with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0006256\/\">Richard Rodgers<\/a>. Set during the opening-night party for Oklahoma!, the film almost always trains the camera on Hawke as he vacillates between charm and pleas for continued relevance in the theater world.<\/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>After getting an Oscar nomination for his role as famed Broadway composer Lorenz Hart in Blue Moon, Ethan Hawke couldn\u2019t help but reminisce on his long-lasting friendship with the film\u2019s director, Richard Linklater. \u201cI have to express my gratitude to Linklater because my first acting award I ever won was a bong from High Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2301562,"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-2301561","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\/Ethan-Hawkes-First-Acting-Award-Was-a-Bong-From-\u2018High.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301561","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=2301561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301563,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301561\/revisions\/2301563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2301562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}