{"id":105246,"date":"2025-10-30T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/105246\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:42:08","slug":"robin-williams-never-followed-dead-poets-society-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/105246\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Williams Never Followed Dead Poets Society Script"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEthan Hawke<\/a> will never forget what he learned from working with Robin Williams<\/a> on 1989\u2019s Dead Poets Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a recent career retrospective video interview with Vanity Fair<\/a>, the Black Phone 2 actor opened up about what he observed from watching filmmaker Peter Weir direct the late Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m watching him direct Robin Williams, not an easy thing to do, \u2019cause Robin was a comic genius. But dramatic acting was still new to Robin at that time,\u201d Hawke recalled. \u201cAnd watching that relationship like, in the room \u2014 I was four feet away while they\u2019re talking about performance \u2014 and that was something you don\u2019t unsee.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued, \u201cRobin Williams didn\u2019t do the script, and I didn\u2019t know you could do that. If he had an idea, he just did it. He didn\u2019t ask permission. And that was a new door that was opened to my brain, that you could play like that. And Peter liked it, as long as we still achieved the same goals that the script had.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHawke said he enjoyed seeing the respect Weir and Williams had for one another, despite having \u201ca very different way of working.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey didn\u2019t judge one another or resist one another,\u201d the Training Day actor explained. \u201cThey worked with each other. That\u2019s exciting \u2014 that\u2019s when you get at the stuff of what great collaboration can do. You don\u2019t have to be the same, but you don\u2019t have to hate somebody for being different than you are. And then the collective imagination can become very, very powerful, because the movie becomes bigger than one person\u2019s point of view. It\u2019s containing multiple perspectives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDead Poets Society follows Maverick teacher John Keating (Williams), who returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys\u2019 boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to inspire his students to new heights of self-expression.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film won the Academy Award for best writing, screenplay written directly for the screen, while Williams earned an Oscar nom for best actor and Weir for best director. Dead Poets Society was also nominated for best picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethan Hawke will never forget what he learned from working with Robin Williams on 1989\u2019s Dead Poets Society.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[68773,146,28012,85,46,41673],"class_list":{"0":"post-105246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dead-poets-society","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ethan-hawke","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-robin-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}