Hollywood star Ethan Hawke, who met his first wife Uma Thurman on the set of Gattaca in 1997, spoke about the "danger" of falling in love with co-stars while filming. He said that relationships that develop on set tend to be disconnected from the "doesn’t have any connection to the dailiness of real life".
The 54-year-old, who was divorced from Uma in 2003, added that the "imaginative intimacy" that actors share when working on a production can heighten feelings, despite being something apart from real life.
Speaking to GQ Hype, Hawke said: “Have you ever played Spin the Bottle? 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.”
Hawke admitted that the media spotlight on his romance with Uma made him feel embarrassed. Femalefirst.co.uk reports that he said: “It’s humiliating. It’s almost humiliating even when they’re saying positive things.”
The actor, who has children Maya and Levon with Uma and Clementine and Indiana with his current wife Ryan Shawhughes, said he had auditioned for the part of Jack Dawson in Titanic.
He said: “I don’t think I would have handled that success as well as Leo. He was a Beatle.”
He said: “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 … you over.”
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