Ethan Hawke has shared a candid NSFW detail about his private life, making what he himself described as an “incredibly vulgar” admission during a new interview.
The actor and author has been married to Ryan Hawke since 2008. Together, they share two children: Clementine Jane Hawke, born in 2008, and Indiana Hawke, born in 2011.
Although the couple occasionally speaks about family life, Hawke surprised interviewers by steering the conversation into more intimate territory with an unexpected bedroom-related comment.
While speaking to British Vogue and British GQ, Hawke was asked whether it’s “bad to eat in bed”.
“Incredibly vulgar things are going through my brain right now,” he immediately replied in the interview that was published on Monday (February 23).
“I like to eat in bed, but I don’t eat food.”
The 55-year-old then laughed, and the chat quickly shifted on to the next topic.
Before his marriage to Ryan, Hawke was married to Uma Thurman. The two met in 1996 while working on the sci-fi film Gattaca, married in 1998, and separated in 2003 before finalising their divorce in 2005.
In a September interview with GQ last year, Hawke reflected on that period and the pressures that can come with his line of work.
“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 also touched on how public commentary can feel, even when it’s meant kindly.
“It’s humiliating. It’s almost humiliating even when they’re saying positive things.”
These days, Hawke says he’s in a happier place, and he shared a little about his dynamic with Ryan during the same GQ conversation.
“My wife is really funny. We’ll go out to dinner and I’ll go, ‘God, that waiter was rude.’ And she’ll say, ‘They weren’t rude. They [just] didn’t recognise you. They were normal. You’re just used to everybody smiling when they see you or offering you an extra thing or moving you up in line’.
“The problem with that kind of attention is that a normal temperature feels cold. When you get tickets to the game and you’re sitting 10 rows back and not the front, you feel like someone f**ked you over.”