The talent highlighted in Variety’s Young Hollywood Impact Report come from the worlds of film, television, music and digital and all made a splash in the last year. All interviews were conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike began.
Hawke has an enthusiasm that’s contagious, and for good reason. This year she sang a cover of Samia’s “Honey” in addition to acting in “Asteroid City” and upcoming biopic “Maestro.” The daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, now 25, got into Juilliard, but left after her first job ran over schedule. Yet she has kept learning: Wes Anderson showed her “how to make radical, beautiful art and take care of everyone while you do it,” and her “Stranger Things” directors the Duffer brothers taught her about humor, though she “never saw myself as being funny.” She nabbed rights to Flannery O’Connor’s stories and life to star in, then brought her dad Toronto premiere “Wildcat” to direct, and soon stars with her mom in “The Kill Room.”
