Ethan Hawke says childhood costar River Phoenix was struggling with how phony Hollywood was

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1. > “He was met with success much earlier than I was,” Hawke said, referring specifically to the response to Rob Reiner’s movie Stand by Me, which “launched this huge career at an extremely young age.”

   > He shared that Phoenix was “vibrating off of how phony that was, whenever you’re getting a lot of accolades and you’re not even in control of your own art.”

   > He added that “people are trying to make money off you [and] if you’re self-aware at all, you understand how dangerous that is.”

   > While this was no doubt a source of great tumult, Hawke noted that it also “led him to do the best work of his short life with Gus Van Sant.”

2. I’m sure the drugs he was taking weren’t helping his mental health.

3. Holden Caulfield vibes

4. Everyone says Hollywood is so phony… bro all workplaces are phony.

5. Hollywood? Real life is wors
   He would have a tougher time seeing how phoney things are nowadays. The world has tuned out of reality.

6. Starting with his parents. They used him as a meal ticket while he didn’t even want to act.

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