Ethan Hawke thought Robin Williams didn't like him

During the filming of The

(1989), Ethan Hawke was convinced that Robin Williams did not like him.

The

star was

one of his first roles in Peter Weir's film and he was particularly intimidated by the huge actor Robin Williams was.

“I thought Robin hated me.

He used to make tons of jokes on set.

When I was 18, I found it incredibly irritating.

He wouldn't stop and I never laughed (at his jokes), ”recalled Ethan Hawke during a question and answer session organized at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival and transcribed by

.

The intimidating intensity of youth

“There was this scene in the film when he spontaneously makes me improvise a poem in front of the class.

He makes this joke at the end, where he says he finds me intimidating.

I thought it was a joke.

But as I got older, I realized that there was something intimidating about the seriousness of youth, in its intensity, ”continued Ethan Hawke.

Subsequently, the star of

recommended him to an agent who was going to help take off his career.

Robin Williams took his own life in 2014 at the age of 63 when he suffered from Parkinson's disease as well as Lewy body dementia, a rare neurodegenerative disease.

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