Maya Hawke isn’t ashamed of the leg up she will get from having well-known dad and mom.
The Stranger Issues actress, daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, is beneath no illusions about her “nepo child” standing. Nonetheless, she will’t see how not taking a job that has been provided to her helps anybody else.
“There are such a lot of individuals who should have this type of life who don’t, however I feel I’m snug with not deserving it and doing it anyway,” she advised The Occasions of London. “And I do know that my not doing it wouldn’t assist anybody.
Maya has made a behavior out of wielding her silver spoon like a sword. The actress steadily will get out forward of accusations that she landed a job purely primarily based on her title with jokes. She lately referred to as her household the “indie Kardashians” and is aware of that any try to cover her lineage (a path she laid out for The Occasions as “change your title, get a nostril job and go to open casting roles”) would simply be discovered with time.
In her new interview, Maya was forthright about her casting in Quentin Tarantino’s As soon as Upon A Time … In Hollywood, saying she landed the function for “nepotistic causes” whereas additionally placing it in context. She notes that the story about Hollywood’s historical past and legacy was loaded with the kids of Hollywood stars like Rumer Willis (daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore) and Margaret Qualley (whose mom is Andie MacDowell).
Even with all that self-deprecation, she is aware of that jokes are coming. Maya mentioned she will deal with cracks about her “undeserved” fame — they arrive with the territory of being fortunate to be born into her household.
“It’s OK to be made enjoyable of once you’re in rarefied air. It’s a fortunate place to be,” she mentioned. “My relationships with my dad and mom are actually trustworthy and optimistic, and that supersedes something anybody can say about it.”
The singer went on to speak about her relationship to her father, saying that she lived with him on the Lodge Chelsea for some time following her dad and mom’ divorce.
“I ran a lemonade stand within the foyer and there was a vacant elevator shaft behind my dad’s closet that I used to like to hang around in,” she mentioned of the time. “He used to make these unbelievable treasure maps that we’d comply with across the Chelsea and the neighborhood. It was a magical time.”
That ease with one another got here in helpful lately. The Hawkes labored collectively on Wildcat, which hit theaters final month, an Ethan Hawke-directed biopic of Flannery O’Connor during which Maya stars because the Southern Gothic novelist.
“We had been each being requested consistently if we had been nervous to work with one another however we weren’t nervous, as a result of I spent my complete life making artwork with that man,” she mentioned.
