Ethan Hawke & Maya Hawke on ‘Wildcat’ and Telling Flannery O’Connor’s Story

Academy Award-nominee Ethan Hawke returns to the director’s chair for Wildcat, a biographical drama on the life of a young Flannery O’Connor he co-wrote, which celebrated its second screening at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Along with executive producer and star Maya Hawke (Asteroid City) and Ethan, Editor-in-Chief Steve Weintraub sat down with the father and daughter to discuss their film at Collider’s studio in the Cinema Center by MARBL to talk about their work dynamic and bringing this American writer’s life to the silver screen.

​ Wildcat director Ethan Hawke and star Maya Hawke talk about why this project was so special and what it was like working together.