Ethan Hawke is scared: his transformation from sensitive boy to creepy villain

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The things that go through your head when you blow out your 50th birthday candles are no longer the same.

You don't pass for young by any means, people start to fall around you, and you can be sure that, at best, you're left with nothing but a

into nothingness.

In November it will be two years since Ethan Hawke blew out those same candles, and he has decided to take the bull by the horns,

to the last consequences of it.

In

,

's movie that hit theaters this Friday, it couldn't be scarier.

He's a bit like the clown from It, a wizard in a top hat kidnapping teenagers in a sleepy Denver suburb in the late '70s. And if It came from the sick imagination of Stephen King, the masked killer from

it is the brainchild of his son,

.

, a story that can be read in

(2005), published in Spain by Suma, owes its title to the device with which the last kidnapped kid, in the basement of rigor, communicates with the previous victims:

which allows Hawke to take out all his demons.

No less demonic is Hawke in the Marvel

which can be seen on Disney+.

While it stars

, a diffident museum clerk empowered by an Egyptian god, Hawke is the leader of a cult that operates in broad daylight.

Arthur Harrow, which is the name of his character, even had a past as

and was in the service of the OMNIUM (

) organization, when he appeared in a

comic published in 1985. To compose it, Hawke has inspired by characters as diverse as

, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart and, above all,

, leader of the Branch Davidians and responsible for

(Texas, USA) in 1993.

Ethan Hawke, the villain of 'Black Phone'.

Decidedly, Hawke has proposed breaking what he calls

.

According to him, once you've played a role like Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980), people will only remember you for that.

But when you've turned 51, you've been making movies for almost four decades (it debuted in 1985, opposite River Phoenix, in Joe Dante's disastrous Explorers), and there's nothing scarier than a simple mirror, it starts to give a little. the same.

Of course, for his fans, Hawke's metamorphosis is still a

If it is that we saw him grow up in the films of

, his colleague from Austin, mainly in the romantic trilogy that he starred in over three decades with

and that he started with

(1995), and in

(2014), that wonderful film that was shot over 11 years and that, in a fair world, would have won the 2015 Oscar.

snatched it from him , Iñárritu's .

It was, however, a

well-advertised

Although he had never been the bad guy in the movie, he had specialized in tortured characters, as in

(Paul Schrader, 2017), and had been working for the stylish Blumhouse scare factory for some time.

He was in the first

(2013), in the

(2016) and in the drama

(2019).

But especially in

(2012), his first collaboration with Derrickson, where he played a writer, like himself.

Indeed, Hawke has published a handful of ambitious novels.

The last one, unpublished in Spanish, has clear

overtones , and could be translated as

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