Catch And Release with Ethan Hawke & Alia Shawkat
The A24 Podcast
A24
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Topics covered include: their new film Blaze, summers in Nova Scotia, art that tells the truth, the beauty of beginner’s mind, Alia’s painting, career advice from Steve McQueen, and the importance of giving it all away.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Episode 5 of the A-24 podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | We're back from our summer hiatus and very excited to share this conversation between Ethan Hawke and Alia Shackett. |
| 0:11.0 | Ethan recently played a tormented pastor and Paul Schrader's first reformed, delivering a career best performance that led Twitter to anoint him, the Tom Hanks of A-24. |
| 0:20.0 | Alia is an actress, writer, painter, and musician. She starred in our 20th century. performance that led Twitter to anoint him, the Tom Hanks of A-24. |
| 0:23.4 | Alia is an actress, writer, painter, and musician. |
| 0:29.1 | She starred in our 2016 film, Green Room, and guest stars in our upcoming TV project, Moonbase 8. |
| 0:35.0 | Last year, Ethan directed Alia in a film called Blaze, which chronicles the life of legendary songwriter, Blaze Fully. |
| 0:37.2 | Blaze is distributed by IFC, and you can see it right now in select theaters. |
| 0:42.0 | For their conversation, Ethan called Alia from his island home in Nova Scotia. |
| 0:47.1 | Well, how have you been? |
| 0:48.7 | Pretty good. Oh, are they rolling? No, we're rolling. |
| 0:52.1 | Yeah, I'm in L.A. in this, like, very decorative studio. And what's happening in your life? Like, fill me in, color in the details of where I'm finding you. I'm in L.A. It's very hot. I just bought a studio. I've been painting every day, and I've been writing. You're kidding. Yeah, dude, I got this, like, I bought |
| 1:11.8 | this, this, like, weird old grocery store in Highland Park. It's like my tree house. I'm just, like, hang out in there, a paint, and I've been writing. Yeah, I'm about to do, like, a short film. So I haven't been acting in, like, a couple months, which has been fun. And, yeah. Did you write this? |
| 1:07.4 | Did you write the short film? |
| 1:08.7 | Are you directing it? |
| 1:09.7 | I'm not. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm just acting in it. |
| 1:11.7 | There's these cool writers. months, which has been fun. And yeah. Did you write this? Did you write the short film? Are you directing it? |
| 1:28.4 | I'm not. |
| 1:28.9 | I'm just acting in it. |
| 1:30.2 | There's this cool writers. |
| 1:31.7 | There's like this young Lebanese couple that I met that I really like. And so I'm going to do this short film with them. But yeah, this will be the first acting in a while. Okay. You're now qualifying as one of the single coolest people I've ever met in my life. |
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