Overview
- Hawke portrays lyricist Lorenz Hart, known for standards like My Funny Valentine, The Lady Is a Tramp and Blue Moon.
- Directed by Richard Linklater, the film plays out in a single night in 1943, largely in a New York bar near the Oklahoma! premiere, from a script by Robert Kaplow.
- Hawke says he had to learn the entire script like a play, reporting more lines on day one than in a decade of work and describing the task as like being fired from a cannon.
- He calls the role one of his toughest, developed over years of workshops with Linklater in what is their ninth feature collaboration.
- Blue Moon is streaming on Netflix, with the Oscars set for March 15 on ABC and Hulu, hosted by Conan O’Brien.