By IANS
NEW DELHI: Hollywood star Ethan Hawke feels actors are storytellers, and individuals who have a good time writing.
“I covered everything in this life as an actor. Actors are storytellers. We are people who celebrate writing,” Hawke advised IANS.
“When I came across (author) James McBride’s work (‘The Good Lord Bird’), I just thought it was a massive accomplishment. This country (the US) is scared to death to look at its past. And he lets us take a look backwards. It is a very healing look. It’s not there to agitate you or enrage you. It’s working to heal and it heals with humour. It is so funny, so irreverent, and I just wanted to share it with people. That’s my job in a lot of ways as a producer and actor. We are connected because it’s all about sharing stories,” he added.
“The Good Lord Bird”, the restricted sequence infused with themes of racism, faith and gender. The story is advised from the standpoint of Onion (Joshua Caleb Johnson) a fictional enslaved boy who turns into a member of John Brown’s household of abolitionist troopers.
Besides starring as John Brown, Hawke has government produced and co-created the present, presently accessible in India on Voot Select.
