Ethan Hawke: Falling in love on set is ‘dangerous’

Bang Showbiz | Los Angeles

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Ethan Hawke admits there is “danger” to falling in love on a movie set. The 54-year-old star met his first wife Uma Thurman when they made Gattaca in 1997 and he explained the “imaginative intimacy” actors share on a project can deepen their feelings for one another, even though there is no “connection” to “real life”.

Speaking to GQ Hype, Ethan - who split from Uma in 2003 - said: “Have you ever played Spin the Bottle? There’s a certain intimacy to the work that we do. Imaginative intimacy. It’s such a high. It feels dangerous and thrilling. It turns the temperature up in your life.

It can be like falling in love at summer camp. It doesn’t have any connection to the dailiness of real life. That’s the danger of it.”

The Blue Moon star found the attention his relationship with Uma attracted very uncomfortable.

He said: “It’s humiliating. It’s almost humiliating even when they’re saying positive things.”

At the time, Ethan - who has children Maya, 27, and Levon, 23, with Uma, and Clementine, 17, and Indiana, 14, with wife Ryan Shawhughes - auditioned for the role of Jack Dawson in Titanic but with hindsight, he’s relieved he didn’t get the part.

He said: “I don’t think I would have handled that success as well as Leo. He was a Beatle.”