Maya Hawke (‘Stranger Things’) Writes through Chaos

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🗓️ 2 June 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

On the heels of her breakout role in Stranger Things, Maya Hawke has gone her own way as an artist— both as an actor and singer-songwriter. That’s especially true on her striking new record, Chaos Angel.

We begin our conversation by diving into this third record of hers (5:37), the ‘emotional pendulum’ that guided her creative process (9:15), and how director Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia inspired the first track (16:12). Then, Maya discusses a piece by novelist Flannery O’Connor (21:20) that shaped her portrayal of the Southern Gothic writer in the new film, Wildcat (25:28), directed by her father (Ethan Hawke).

On the back-half, we sit with Hawke’s childhood growing up in a household of actors (41:55), a passage from her father reflecting on Before Midnight (45:10), the connective tissue between her latest projects (55:10), and how she’s recently found a place of peace in the aftermath of her new album, Chaos Angel (59:36).

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jessica St Clair, but you can call me Jess if you're nasty.
0:05.0	And I'm Dame Casey Wilson.
0:08.0	We are actors, comedians, and podcast tours.
0:11.0	But above all else, we are self-appointed masters of small talk.
0:16.0	We have written a soon-to-be Nobel Prize winning audio book that will surely change the course of
0:21.4	history called The Art of small talk.
0:24.0	Now it's no secret that some people don't like small talk.
0:27.5	Don't like it. Casey, everybody hates it.
0:30.0	Except for us, we love to chit-chat bullshat and that's why we wrote this book.
0:34.6	Well, it's an audio book. You're welcome. Who has the time to read?
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1:06.8	the art of Small Talk.
1:08.4	How to go shallow to go deep. You're going to be here. This is talk easy. I'm San Francisco so.
1:41.0	This is talk easy. I'm San Francisco, so. Welcome to the hands. out a few years back at the age of 21 playing the role of Robin Buckley in the hit Netflix series Stranger Things.
2:07.6	The show has become an international success and yet Hawk has taken the road less traveled, a more independent route, investing instead
2:16.4	in her work as a singer-songwriter on albums like Blush and Moss, and taking a range of small supporting roles in movies like Once Upon a Time in
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