Ethan Hawke opened up about his relationship together with his eldest daughter, actor Maya Hawke, in a wide-ranging interview with Sydney Sweeney revealed on Thursday.
Ethan Hawke and Sweeney spoke to one another for Selection’s annual sequence, “Actors on Actors,” the place Hawke opened up about his kids, and Maya particularly.
“There were a lot of things about her childhood that were really, really hard and complicated, and things I regret for her,” the “Blue Moon” actor mentioned. “I remember some teacher said, ‘Maya, are you happy?’ ’Cause they were worried about her. And she said something to the effect of, ‘Do you really think that’s the question?’ I thought, ‘I love this kid.’ She was about 13.”
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He added that he additionally “never worried” about Maya “going into the arts, because I knew that was gonna save her life.”
Whereas Hawke didn’t broaden on anyone incident particularly that he regretted, he and Maya’s mom, Uma Thurman, had been married for six years and are each within the public eye.
The 2 actors had been additionally the topic of nice tabloid hypothesis, with rumors that Hawke left Thurman for his or her kids’s nanny, Ryan Shawhughes. Hawke and Shawhughes later confirmed their relationship by tying the knot in 2008. They’ve two kids collectively.
Hawke lately opened up about his divorce from Thurman in an interview with the Los Angeles Occasions.
“The public eye is like gasoline, but what makes divorce hard is the stuff that makes it hard for everyone — the family elements, how to help the kids through it,” he mentioned in an interview revealed final month.
He added that he “can’t really talk about this because I vowed to my kids so many times not to talk about the divorce in public.”
“But one thing I will say is if you get the privilege of traveling the world, you realize that everywhere men and women have a tremendous amount of difficulty staying married,” Hawke added. “When I split up I was hellbent on not having any more kids and I wanted to be single for the rest of my life. But then I made a best friend and I liked kissing her.”
