May 20, 2024 - Ethan Hawke, Young Black Woman | Old White Man, and parenting

The Culture Show Podcast · May 20, 2024 · 50m

Writer Flannery O’Connory was a devout Catholic. She grew up in Georgia and eventually lived on a farm among peacocks. She negotiated life under the threat of looming death because she had lupus. But her imagination took her elsewhere. Mostly to peculiar places, often violent ones, where prophets, sinners and outsiders sought truth and redemption.

Now her biography, her characters and her life of the mind converge in the new film “Wildcat.” It’s directed by Ethan Hawke, he also co-wrote it with Shelby Gaines and it stars his daughter, Maya Hawke as Flannery O’Connor.

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