Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette, stars of the Richard Linklater film Boyhood, were the guests on NPR's Fresh Air, talking with host Terry Gross about their roles in the groundbreaking film. "We were being offered a job no two actors had been offered before in the history of acting," says Hawke, "to get to create a character and use time as our clay, to shape somebody the way life shapes us." Hear the interview here.
Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette, stars of the Richard Linklater film Boyhood, were the guests on NPR's Fresh Air. They spoke with host Terry Gross about their roles in the groundbreaking film, which was just named Best Picture at the Golden Globes; Arquette won for Best Supporting Actress and Linklater for Best Director. You can hear the interview below.
"There's never been a film like Boyhood," says Gross, "a fiction film about a family that takes place over the course of 12 years and was shot over the course of 12 years, filming several days each year."
Boyhood is a story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (played by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before the viewers’ eyes. Hawke and Arquette play the divorced parents of Mason and his sister Samantha, played by Lorelei Linklater.
"We were being offered a job no two actors had been offered before in the history of acting," Hawke tells his host, "to get to create a character and use time as our clay, to shape somebody the way life shapes us."
Two songs that Hawke wrote and performed for the film were recently released digital on Nonesuch Records, which released the film's soundtrack last year.
Listen to Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette on Fresh Air:
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