Ethan Hawke thought Robin Williams ‘hated’ him on set of ‘Lifeless Poet’s Society’

However the two ended up being mates, after Williams set Hawke up along with his first agent.

“He known as, saying, ‘Robin Williams says you will do rather well.’ There was this scene within the movie when he makes me spontaneously make up a poem in entrance of the category. He made this joke on the finish of it, saying that he discovered me intimidating. I assumed it was a joke. As I grow old, I understand there’s something intimidating about younger individuals’s earnestness, their depth. It’s intimidating — to be the particular person they suppose you might be. Robin was that for me,” Hawke added.

Hawke additionally talked about his profession as a novelist, actor and director saying, “As soon as I began doing a little directing, my respect for appearing went up.”