When he just started his career and they filmed "Dead Poets Society" Robin was very joking with everyone, something that irritated the young actor who did not laugh at his jokes
Ethan Hawke recalled his life as an actor and remembered who has left him valuable life lessons, such as Robin Williams when he began his career and with whom he worked on the film Dead Poets Society. 1989.
During his speech at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where he received the President's Award, as well as on The Graham Norton Show, Ethan, the actor, who is now 50 years old and has a successful career, fondly remembers the late actor.
Hawke, who was just 19 years old at the time of filming the production, took his role as the shy and sensitive student Todd Anderson very seriously. On the other hand, Robin Williams, who played the extraordinary Professor Keating and was already an established actor with extensive experience, so he had the luxury of improvising, staying relaxed, and making jokes on the recording sets, constantly told Ethan to relax and he frequently laughed at his character.
“Robin was very funny, relaxed, and creative and was constantly improvising. But I was worried about being a serious actor, I had even read Stanislavsky. I wanted to genuinely play that character and not make fun of it. He (Robin) would laugh at me and say: 'Oh, this one doesn't want to laugh!'... The more he made jokes about my character, the more smoke came out of my ears,” he narrated about his interaction with the actor and his attitude. joker, which he considered "irritating" at first.
However, despite those episodes that Hawke took personally against him, later the veteran Williams showed him his appreciation and admiration with a gesture that was worth a thousand words. Ethan then confessed what happened after the end of filming such a feature film.
“When we finished making the movie, I got a call from Robin's agent telling me that he wanted to represent me because he had told him that he knew I was going to be someone big one day,” he recounted.
“There was a scene in the movie where he had me spontaneously make up a poem in front of the class. He made this joke at the end, saying that he found me intimidating. I thought it was a joke. As I get older I realize that something is intimidating about the seriousness of the young, their intensity. It's intimidating, to be the person they think you are. Robin was that for me," Hawke added.
So with this action, Williams gave a boost to Hawke's career whose positive consequences extend to the present, since such an agent is the same one who represents him to date and has led him to participate in excellent films such as the trilogy which ended with Before Midnight, and Boyhood, both directed by Richard Linklater, as well as many other titles that made the actor reap a successful career that keeps him going even 29 years after sharing a film set with the late and well-remembered Robin.
The third installment of "A Night at the Museum" was the last work of Williams. Filming ended in May 2014 and three months later the actor was found dead in his California home, hanged by a belt.
That morning of August 11, 2014, the world was moved by his name, although this time in the worst way. In the room of his house in the Californian town of Paradise Cay, the inert body of Robin Williams slightly suspended in the air -with a belt tied around his neck at one end and with the other hooked to the upper part of the closet- represented the worst possible scene
Robin was 63 years old at the time, he faced the fear of not being able to make people laugh again, the still unresolved pain of his separation from Marsha Garces, his second wife, and mother of two of his three children, and the shadow of what would have been a wrong medical diagnosis, which would end up shedding light on his fatal outcome: he believed he had Parkinson's and in his autopsy, they detected dementia with Lewy bodies.
