Ethan Hawke discusses forty years of film work

23 October 2025

American actor Ethan Hawke discusses forty years of work, from Explorers in 1985, through to Blue Moon this year, as part of the Vanity Fair Career Timeline series of videos.

There’s not a lot what of Hawke does that feels like a run-of-the-mill movie. Dead Poets Society, and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, for example, are something else all together.

Then there’s the Richard Linklater productions, Before Sunrise, the first of the Before films, which spans an eighteen year period across three instalments, and Boyhood, filmed over twelve years.