How do you tell the story of people’s lives just using interview transcripts?
Ethan Hawke has spent three decades telling stories. He is a master at approaching filmmaking with care and humanity, understanding that each project has a unique message and style that is meaningful to each person.
This approach is something Hawke continues when exploring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s lives in his new docuseries, The Last Movie Stars. Hawke recently unpacked the series on the Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso podcast, and discussed why he used his friends and community to tell a story that “doesn’t exist in a vacuum.”
Ethan Hawke and The Last Movie Stars
The Last Movie Stars was created and directed by Hawke and is based on a series of transcripts from destroyed tapes about Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman’s lives as actors and a married couple. The docuseries springs from a project that Newman had commissioned friend and screenwriter Stewart Stern to do.
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
