Andrew Scott, Bobby Cannavale and Ethan Hawke with director Richard Linklater at TIFF, which offers direct contact with fans at Q-and-A events and red carpets open to the general public.

Stage and screen stars Ethan Hawke and Andrew Scott agree most actors can benefit from audience feedback, but there’s a time and a place for criticism.

The stars of Richard Linklater’s intimate portrait Blue Moon are at the Toronto International Film Festival where they note Canadian audiences are notoriously “very nice” to visiting filmmakers.

Linklater says audience feedback is generally more helpful than an individual’s hot-take, with Toronto offering “a real cinephile audience” of “really highly attuned film people.”

TIFF is especially well-regarded as an audience barometer since it also offers

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