Overview
- Sweeney and Hawke appeared on Variety and CNN’s Actors on Actors, offering a frank discussion of craft, risk and personal stakes.
- Sweeney detailed training twice daily, gaining 35 pounds and sustaining a concussion to portray boxer Christy Martin in Christy.
- Hawke praised Sweeney’s boundary-pushing work on Euphoria, prompting her warm reply, “I wish you were my dad.”
- Hawke described a decade-long path to Blue Moon, noting Richard Linklater first handed him the script more than ten years ago.
- Hawke said he took his daughter to see Christy and shared her positive reaction, while Sweeney noted she recently wrapped Euphoria Season 3.