Photographed by Justin Jay, Boyhood actor Ethan Hawke covers the January/February 2015 edition of Manhattan magazine. Discussing taking up residence in Brooklyn Heights, the 44 year-old actor shares, “The whole city’s changing, while Brooklyn feels to me the way New York was a while ago. Brooklyn is about the barometric pressure of New York turned down about 20 points.”
On the subject of working with director Richard Linklater on the Sunrise trilogy and the recent Boyhood, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination, Hawke confides, “The work that Rick and I have been able to do both with the Sunrise trilogy and with Boyhood didn’t happen overnight…Jesse [from the Sunrise series] and [Boyhood ’s] Mason Sr. are two of the greatest parts I’ve ever played, and Rick let me create these roles for myself. For me, the greatest thing about getting older is getting to walk into the deeper part of the pool. It’s more complicated, and it’s certainly full of more trappings, but it’s fun.”
