As a parent, Ethan Hawk does everything he can to support his children’s mental and physical well-being. If you grew up in a healthy home, that sentence might read like a common-sense statement. However, many children either have or had homes where their parents failed to see them as separate entities. Such is the case for one of his recent cabbies, whom Ethan is now calling out.
Ethan Hawke told Sydney Sweeney about a comment a cab driver made
Ethan recently appeared alongside Sydney Sweeney on the set of Variety’s Actors on Actors. While promoting her new movie, Christy, a biopic about the boxer Christy Martin, Sydney noted that Christy grew up in a challenging environment. And as Sydney stressed, “I just could not understand a parent not being able to be there for their kid.”
Ethan agreed. But, “Unfortunately, it happens all the time,” he admitted. And then he shared a story about a cab driver he once had, who wasn’t clearly seeing his children for who they really were.
“I had a cab driver on the way from the airport who said, ‘You know the best thing about my son? He looks just like me.’” Weird “best” flex, right? Ethan thought so too, which is why he answered, “That’s not the best thing about your son. It has nothing to do with your son.”
“So many parents,” Ethan explained, “have an agenda of who you are as reflecting them. You are not an independent entity,” with parents like these, Ethan said. Then, Ethan noted, “in our profession,” there are many parents who want to keep their children away from the arts, since it’s an unreliable, beats-you-up-quickly kind of field. But when his daughter, Maya, expressed an interest, Ethan “never worried about her going into the arts, because I knew that was gonna save her life.”
Ethan has his regrets and missteps. Regardless, he has always been a solid dad.
TELL US – HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ANOTHER PARENT MAKE A REMARK THAT STUCK WITH YOU?
