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Ethan Hawke Turns in Stunning Performance as Lyricist Lorenz Hart in ‘Blue Moon,’ Talks It Up at the Riviera Theatre
My already high esteem for Ethan Hawke bumped up a few notches after catching his moving portrayal of tragic jazz legend Chet Baker, in the vastly underrated 2015 Canadian film Born to be Blue. Hawke’s latest triumph finds him deep in the shoes and addled brain of another legendary musician lyricist, Lorenz Hart, in another “blue” film, Blue Moon. Hawke nails both characterizations, with empathy and savvy to suit.
Hart and Baker are both American musical icons with sad life stories and diverse personalities — Baker, the laconic matinee idol felled by drugs and Hart, the acerbically witty partner of Richard Rogers, literally felled by drink. In Blue Moon, we join Hart’s saga at its dismal endpoint, with our protagonist staggering drunkenly in an alley way off of Broadway, in the rain, meeting his untimely finale at age 48.
Chasing The Gold: Interview: ‘Blue Moon’: Ethan Hawke on the inventiveness of Richard Linklater
Ethan Hawke says his journey with filmmaker Richard Linklater has led to the “role of a lifetime” playing Lorenz Hart in Blue Moon. The two have been collaborating for years. Audiences got to watch Jesse (Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) fall in love and then realize the reality of staying with a “soul mate” in the Before Trilogy. Hawke reprised his role as Jesse in the mixed media animation, Waking Life. He spent twelve years filming Boyhood. Hawke is in two of Linklater’s lesser-known works: The Newton Boys and Tape.
Nadine Whitney: You’ve spent a lot of time with Richard. He’s a genre chameleon in a similar manner to you and your choice of roles. Are you ever surprised by his ideas?
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Revisiting Lorenz Hart – The Poet of Broadway
Before Rodgers and Hammerstein there was Rodgers and Hart yet most people know very little of Lorenz Hart even though they would have listened to many of his songs in every decade since the 1920s. His repertoire has been widely performed and recorded by generations of stars from Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra to Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga and many singers of renown.
Richard Linklater’s newly released biopic Blue Moon has generated a renewed interest and introspection into his life and work. Linklater refers to the film “as a little howl into the night of an artist being left behind.” The film centres on the opening night of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma.
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