"This is a story of a man's death. A guy who basically died of heartbreak at an opening night party. As soon as Linklater shared the script with me, I thought, A: it was one of the most blisteringly beautiful screenplays I'd ever read. And, B: I just loved this guy. I wanted to play him so badly."
"A lot of the men who were my mentors when I was coming up in the theater reminded me of Lorenz Hart. They don't treat the arts as a job. They treat it as a spiritual calling and it's life and death, every rhyme is life and death and, you know, I just loved him so I was grateful for the chance."
"The film assumes an intelligence on the part of the audience that is, I find, rare. Richard assumes that you care about human nuance, that you care about heartbreak and that you care about love."
Ethan Hawke received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of lyricist Lorenz Hart in director Richard Linklater's film 'Blue Moon.' Hart's quarter-century partnership with composer Richard Rodgers ended due to Hart's alcoholism and erratic behavior, after which Rodgers famously collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein on Broadway successes like 'Oklahoma!' Hawke describes the film as a story of a man who died of heartbreak at an opening night party. He praised Linklater's screenplay as beautifully written and connected with Hart's character, seeing parallels to theater mentors from his early career. Hawke emphasizes that the film respects audience intelligence, assuming viewers care about human nuance, heartbreak, and love. This marks Hawke's fifth Oscar nomination at age 55.
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