Ethan Hawke blasts Hollywood's 'greedy bastards,' predicts massive rebellion against powerful elites
Ethan Hawke blasts Hollywood's 'greedy bastards,' predicts massive rebellion against powerful elites
isn't holding back when it comes to the powerful forces he believes are controlling the entertainment industry.
During a new interview with GQ, the Oscar-nominated actor took aim at wealthy power players, blasting "greedy bastards" who think they control every aspect of Hollywood and predicting a major rebellion against the industry.
"I believe in rebellion. And I think people are going to wake up and punch back and theres going to be massive movements in music and massive movements in live theater and massive movements of people getting together," Hawke said.
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"So dont worry that the money and the greedy bastards that think they control everybody, they always lose in the end," he continued. "And theyre all going in the grave eventually. They think theyre winning, but theyre losing because their lives are worthless."
Hawke also expressed frustration with the financial pressures shaping Hollywood, arguing that the projects actors care about most often come with the smallest paychecks.
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"There's a direct correlation. I find that the more you love a project, the less you get paid," he said. "If you want to beat the algorithm, it's very difficult to do that and be paid."
This isn't the first time Hawke has spoken about the pitfalls of Hollywood.
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Last year, the actor called celebrity a "poison" for a young actor's brain.
During an appearance on "The Joe Rogan Experience," Hawke got candid about his start in Hollywood as a young man and reflected on the psychological effect of becoming famous at a young age.
"I think celebrity is like a tiny drop of mercury. Or it's poison. It's poison for your brain," the actor said. "To be a professional actor at a young age, it's dangerous in extremely insidious ways that are very, very hard to perceive when it's happening," Hawke said.
compared the experience of becoming famous as a child to concrete. If concrete is made incorrectly, with the wrong amount of water or cement, that's it, he explained. Rogan added that once it dries there is no way to repair or fix it.
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"That analogy works for all walks of life. Really. If you have something really traumatic happen in childhood, it's very hard to recover. It's a tremendous amount of work to recover. And I agree with you, like I think celebrity is like a tiny drop of mercury. Or it's a poison. It's a poison for your brain," Hawke said.
During his GQ interview, Hawke expressed the same sentiment.
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