Ethan Hawke remembers sensing Robin Williams’ private struggles on Dead Poets Society set: ‘It was taxing’

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1. > “I’ve had a lot of depression in my family, and it was obvious to me that all that power and that charisma came at a certain cost,” Hawke said, describing Williams as “a deeply, deeply sensitive person who was highly attuned to the energy of a room.”

   > Hawke then recalled a moment on set when Williams was “making up lines, and everybody’s laughing, everybody’s praising him.” Later, though, things were different. “Then I went to get a glass of water, you know, get a bagel or something, and I saw him hiding in a little corner. He was hiding in the dark by himself. And I [thought], ‘Okay, it makes a lot more sense to me now.’ It was a lot. It was taxing.”

2. I have to say. Explorers came out before I was even alive, and I’ve seen that movie. I don’t consider that failure

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