{"id":341918,"date":"2025-12-11T23:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341918\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:52:06","slug":"ethan-hawke-on-daughter-maya-hawkes-childhood-acting-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341918\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethan Hawke on Daughter Maya Hawke\u2019s Childhood, Acting Career\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, Ethan\u2014also dad to son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1375036\/ethan-hawkes-son-levon-joins-dad-at-cannes-film-festival-after-appearing-with-mom-uma-thurman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Levon<\/a>, 23, with Uma, as well as daughters Clementine Jane, 17, and Indiana, 14, with wife Ryan Shawhughes\u2014had a front row seat to the moment she found her artistic voice as a teen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember some teacher said, \u2018Maya, are you happy?\u2019 \u2018Cause they were worried about her,\u201d he recalled. \u201cAnd she said something to the effect of, \u2018Do you really think that\u2019s the question?\u2019 I thought, \u2018I love this kid.\u2019 She was about 13.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201c[Maya said], \u2018I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a very interesting question. I think there\u2019s a lot more interesting questions than whether I\u2019m happy or not. Am I happy? No. But I don\u2019t aspire to be happy.\u2019 So I never worried about her going into the arts, because I knew that was gonna save her life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In fact, Ethan\u2014also dad to son Levon, 23, with Uma, as well as daughters Clementine Jane, 17, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-341918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}