If Peter Weir has not made a film for more than 12 years, it is because of two actors, according to Ethan Hawke.

The actor was obviously on the poster for the

Circle of Dead Poets

, one of the Australian filmmaker's greatest films, released in 1989, and he believes he knows why whoever was behind the camera for

The Truman Show

,

The Last Wave

, or

Witness

, decided to step back.

"I think he's lost interest in movies.

He really enjoyed this job when he didn't have actors giving him a hard time.

Russell Crowe and Johnny Depp broke it.

He's such a rare person these days, a popular artist.

He makes mainstream films that are artistic at the same time.

To have the budget to do

The Truman Show

or

Master and Commander

, you need a Jim Carrey or a Russell Crowe.

I think Harrison Ford and Gerard Depardieu were his kind of actors.

They were supportive of the director and didn't see themselves as important,” Ethan Hawke told IndieWire.

It's finish

Russell Crowe starred in

Master and Commander

, released in 2003, and Johnny Depp should have starred in

Shantaram

, the adaptation of Gregory David Roberts' novel.

This project unfortunately never saw the light of day, Peter Weir preferring to abandon everything definitively in 2014. "Peter walked away from this film because his interpretation was very different from that of the studio and the producers", had at the time explained Warner, according to The Wrap.

What exactly happened between the filmmaker and the two aforementioned actors?

We will probably never know, but Ethan Hawke seems to have behind-the-scenes information from the filming.

Peter Weir's latest film,

The Roads to Freedom

, was released in 2010. This feature film, starring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris, was very well received by critics but proved to be a commercial failure in the box office, with barely 24 million dollars in revenue for a budget of 30 million.

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