Ethan Hawke , 55, is a girl dad, which shows when he sits down to speak with Sydney Sweeney . At 28, the actor-producer who first broke out on HBO’s “Euphoria” is close in age to Hawke’s oldest daughter, “Stranger Things” star Maya Hawke, and Hawke seems to take beaming pride in Sweeney’s career success — even though they’re meeting for the first time.

Sweeney is the star of “Christy,” a biopic about the boxer Christy Martin, a trailblazer in women’s sports who won fight after fight while suffering life-threatening abuse from her husband-slash-coach. Some parts of Martin’s story — being queer and semi-closeted, struggling with addiction, feeling rejected by people she loved — overlap with that of legendary Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart, whom Hawke plays in Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moo

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