Ethan Hawke referred to as his very public divorce from actor Uma Thurman a mortifying expertise.
“It’s humiliating. It’s almost humiliating even when they’re saying positive things,” he advised GQ Hype in an interview revealed on Monday.
The pair married in 1998 after assembly on the set of the dystopian thriller “Gattaca,” which got here out in 1997.
They separated in 2003, and Thurman filed for divorce one yr later. The break up was finalized in 2005.
Speaking about their relationship, Hawke stated there was a particular sort of enchantment that springs from an on-set romance.
Likening it to a recreation of Spin the Bottle, he stated, “There’s a certain intimacy to the work that we do. Imaginative intimacy. It’s such a high. It feels dangerous and thrilling.”
These emotions weren’t constructed to final lengthy in the actual world, nonetheless, in accordance with Hawke.
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“It turns the temperature up in your life. It can be like falling in love at summer camp,” he stated. “It doesn’t have any connection to the dailiness of real life. That’s the danger of it.”
The “Before Sunrise” actor had beforehand talked about fame factoring into their divorce.
“To be honest, it was an undue pressure on my marriage,” he advised Parade journal in 2006. “I didn’t like being famous when I was single, and what it did to my celebrity status to be married to another famous person was a huge pressure, one I didn’t enjoy. And it had nothing to do with her. Nothing to do with her.”
In a separate interview with Parade earlier that yr, Thurman was cautious to not communicate sick of her ex.
“I cannot participate in anything critical about my children’s father,” the “Kill Bill” star stated of Hawke, with whom she shares daughter Maya Hawke, 27, and son Levon Hawke, 23.
“I just need to keep peace,” Thurman went on. “I think it’s fair to say that I haven’t said one mean thing, and I’m not going to start now. It’s terrible for my family.”
