{"id":491036,"date":"2026-01-04T05:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/491036\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T05:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:08:14","slug":"he-will-always-be-a-part-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/491036\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe Will Always Be a Part of Me\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFollowing a banner year with back-to-back critically acclaimed performances in Richard Linklater<\/a>\u2019s Blue Moon<\/a>, Sterlin Harjo<\/a>\u2019s The Lowdown<\/a> and Scott Derrickson\u2019s Black Phone 2<\/a>, Ethan Hawke<\/a> headed to the desert to receive a career achievement trophy during the Palm Springs Film Awards Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe honor \u2014\u00a0presented during a starry ceremony<\/a> inside the Palm Springs Convention Center attended by fellow honorees like Miley Cyrus, Adam Sandler, Timothee Chalamet, Kate Hudson, Michael B. Jordan, Amanda Seyfried and others \u2014\u00a0had Hawke feeling \u201cincredible reflective\u201d about his long and enviable career. Specifically, it had Hawke thinking about \u201cthe people who actually made this career that you\u2019re honoring.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI am the consistent element, yes, but there are so many people sewn in to the fabric of it. I never did anything alone,\u201d Hawke said.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs such, he spent the majority of his speech shouting out his many collaborators, beginning with the late River Phoenix with whom he starred in Joe Dante\u2019s Explorers, a 1985 film about a young boy obsessed with 1950s sci-fi movies about aliens. After a recurring dream about a blueprint, he and two pals attempt to build themselves a spaceship.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI remember being 13. I was staying at a Radisson Hotel up by San Francisco, watching out my window as a 14-year old River Phoenix walked back and forth across the parking lot,\u201d Hawke recalled from the podium following a loving tribute from Oscar winner Mahershala Ali<\/a>. \u201cI went outside and I asked him, \u2018What are you doing?\u2019 And he said, \u2018I\u2019m practicing my character\u2019s walk.\u2019 He auditioned a series of walks for me, and it had never occurred to me to walk any other way but as cool as possible. That\u2019s all I thought about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHawke then opened up on the influence they had on one another during that time, which came in their earliest days in the acting business.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI talked to him for a while. He\u2019d never read a book. I gave him Catcher in the Rye. I had never listened to punk rock, and he gave me cassettes. I didn\u2019t know what a vegetarian was. He showed me documentaries about slaughterhouses and the damage they were doing to our environment,\u201d Hawke explained of Phoenix who died at age 23 of a drug overdose at the Viper Room in Los Angeles on Halloween night in 1993. \u201cHe will always be a part of me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHawke then shouted out more of his many collaborators including Ali, Dante, Peter Weir, \u201cthe friends I made on Dead Poets Society,\u201d Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Laura Linney, the Steppenwolf Theater Company, Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard, Sidney Lumet, Denzel Washington, his parents, his wife and producing partner Ryan Hawke, and more.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAll of us here are as good as our time,\u201d Hawke continued. \u201cWe make each other. The interconnectivity between all of us is obvious and unimpeachable. The masculine and feminine are inextricable. If we hurt each other, we hurt ourselves, and that\u2019s why we have to take care of ourselves because we are needed. We are needed to take care of each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a ceremony that saw many of the honorees promote the theatrical experience and the importance of sitting in a dark movie theater, Hawke stayed on theme. \u201cI believe in the movies,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe that human creativity is nature manifest in us, and our expressions represent our collective mental health. And we, all of us in this room, have a charge to do our best, to do the good that we have the power to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued: \u201cWe all know these are turbulent times, but they always are. Our challenges are unique to our time. Technology has made advances so quickly that it would first seemed like an advance suddenly feels like a retreat. Truth is hard to hear inside the tower of Babel but we know it when we see it, when we hear it. We are not as fragile as we fear. And there is so much fun to be had, and there is so much life to live. When I think about my career in the arts, in all honesty, I have had a ball. I have had so much fun, and there has been so much wildness. That\u2019s what I aim to preserve \u2014\u00a0the wild. Protect the wild.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a banner year with back-to-back critically acclaimed performances in Richard Linklater\u2019s Blue Moon, Sterlin Harjo\u2019s The Lowdown…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":491037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,85205,10952,1589,48205,221370,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-491036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-ethan-hawke","tag-mahershala-ali","tag-phoenix","tag-richard-linklater","tag-sterlin-harjo","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115835103073965554","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}