Iwondered if Ethan Hawke would be able to walk into a crowded diner and have lunch with me. It’s the first weekend of the 2025 Toronto Film Festival, and the city is overflowing with cinephiles—many of whom are intimately familiar with Hawke thanks to Reality Bites or Gattaca or his Oscar-nominated turn in Training Day or his Oscar-nominated turn in Boyhood.

But Hawke may be best known to this crowd for the work he’s done during his decades-long collaboration with filmmaker Richard Linklater. Their partnership began in 1995 with the romantic drama Before Sunrise, starring Hawke and Julie Delpy as strangers who meet on a train and roam Vienna for the night, and its two sequels: Before Sunset in 2004 and Before Midnight in 2013. Hawke and Linklater have done nine proj

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