Ethan Hawke

He smoked alot of cigarettes. ALOT. That ages you.

Drugs and alcohol.

Cigarettes can only do so much, kids.

He's still handsome.

I met him once at a party some Columbia graduate students gave in NYC in the 1990s. He was staring at their bookshelves, and when they came over to say hello, he said in amazement, "You've read ALL these books?"

Alot, R1? Twice? Second time in CAPS?

I think he looks fine.

He looks 50...as in looks GOOD. Two Oscar noms for acting and two for screenplays. OP, how do YOU think a 50-year-old should look???

he looks like a very good-looking 50-ish guy. I don't know what sort of 50-ish guys people here know.

He’s good in The Good Lord Bird as John Brown. There he looks ancient.

Like a 29 year old, R6, obviously.

For along time he had dirty smokers teeth. He had them redone.

Met him in person when Boyhood came out. He looks great. Real. Handsome. Sexy.

Actually, that's a pretty flattering photo of him, OP. Were you trying to get us to say he's fugly???

I like him better now. He seemed like some pretentious but unbathed hippy in the old days, a sort of low budget Sam Shepherd wannabe. He actually seems like a decent actor now.

Has he stopped pretending he's a poet? That was a bad phase.

For a while he had meth face

Straight 50 who drank and smoked and drugged a lot. Very handsome. Fuck off OP.

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^wah?

He was chunky in Reality Bites.

Sounds like a pornstar's name

It's the before and after of the once lovely Jan Michael Vincent, R18. Sad story.

Well, he's no Joe Penny!

[quoteHe was staring at their bookshelves, and when they came over to say hello, he said in amazement, "You've read ALL these books?

Oh my God I hate this when people come to my place for the first time and say the same (yes, I have A LOT OF books). This makes them sound not very bright to be honest.

It's a compliment, r23.

I just saw Maudie, and he was fucking good going head to head with Sally Hawkins. Has anyone seen The Good Lord Bird?

That's your idea of an ugly 50-year-old, OP?! I'd fuck Ethan Hawke, then I'd fuck him again.

R24, agree that is meant as a compliment but, as every person with a lot of books knows, you haven’t read them all, you are constantly buying to read later. When you say this those same people usually looks suspicious, as if confirms their view it is not possible to read thay many books.

When he was young, I thought he had conventionally attractive features but I was never attracted to him at all. He doesn't have that kind of magnetism for me. However, he does give off a strong melancholic longing type of vibe in all of the notable roles I can think of, and not a whole lot of actors carry that. From Great Expectations, which was just OK, to Before Sunrise and its sequels, which are gorgeous films, and Boyhood, he really has an almost unique heavy charisma and I appreciate him very much as an actor despite not having any physical attraction to him.

I've never liked him. Ever. He was never attractive, and can't act. I listed him in "Actors That Ruin A Movie" thread for a reason.

[quote]as every person with a lot of books knows, you haven’t read them all, you are constantly buying to read later.

I guess I was never a "person with a lot of books." I read everything I ever bought, and had what I thought were a lot of books (mostly hardcover; I gave paperbacks away).

I was never a collector, though. I never sorted any of my fiction (as opposed to cookbooks, reference books, art books). I just put books up on shelves as I finished them. I gave away at least a thousand before a big move, so I thought I had a lot of books. I guess not.

He looks like a normal 50, not an A&F, backwards-hat-wearing 50yo gay man with a fake tan and too much Botox pretending he's still "39."

By age 50, anyone trying to look like they're 35 or younger ends up totally mutilated. Jennifer Lopez probably has done better (by far) than anyone at pulling off the mirage. Nicole Kidman, 53, looks younger than her years in still photos, and in motion the lower half of her face looks like a mask. It's disturbing. And men always fare far worse because they can't adorn themselves with glamours and not look like freaks. Just a couple of years ago, people were still saying Ryan Phillippe, now 46, was "ageless," and now he looks (in best cases) well over 40 and built very well and (in worst cases) like he is one surgical "refresh" away from looking like Wayne Newton.

Better to just get older. It's inevitable. Why is it worse to look wrinkly and middle aged or elderly than like Joan Rivers or Kenny Rogers?

Donatella Versace can look in the mirror and not see a single wrinkle...so, uh, congrats to her.

I think he's gorgeous. I always have...ever since Dead Poets Society. Here's a photo shoot he did for L'Uomo Vogue in 2004.

R29, there are people that read a lot that don’t have a lot of books, they read from libraries, give some away, etc. Others, like me, are more of a complulsion to keep buying ,so they have more books, some of them still unreAd. I actually would be-more like you , as keeping them all is a nightmare .

That’s a great photo of him— he looks hot! I’d say that he looks good even disregarding the hard living.

Hawke was insanely hot at the time of Reality Bites and even before. He still looks good now but aged.

My dad bought me his audiobook CD narration of Slaughterhouse-Five. It was the first time I had come across Kurt Vonnegut. We listened to it one Christmas when driving to my nana's farm. My father is gone now, but it was a great experience, so thanks for the memories Ethan Hawke.

He went through a very gross and gaunt phase 10-15 years ago but looks great now. In Maudie he's quite thick and built like a tank but alas is fully clothed the entire time.

I liked him in "Boyhood". He finally seemed like someone other than some hipster actor-wannabe.

He always looks good when cleaned up on a red carpet. Also in Dead Poets Society, Snow Falling On Cedars and especially Gattaca where he fitted in as believably genetically flawless among Uma Thurman and Jude Law.

Hawke has a combination of strong charisma and a light, breezy acting style with which he's unconcerned about playing assholes. He's not too faux-method/Actors-Studio.

His looks are Meh. Robert Sean Leonard and Josh Charles were better looking and way more talented and should've had Ethan's career.

Despite the dullardly ingenuousness in R3's anecdote, Ethan Hawke did say something that comes back to me now and then as an admonition. It was in some magazine interview I read in the 90s. He was asked about the similarly bird-named River Phoenix (with whom he was in *Explorers* as a juvenile) and said, "The thing about education is that it helps you see that your weirdness is not unique." Something that the uneducated River apparently never learned (so he was doomed to reinvent the wheel of originality).

R12 r16 Chill out Uma, don't get your uterus tied up in a knot.

We know you're still pissed when during an an interview just after you gave birth he said your lady parts were all stretched out.

He was a cute teenager. He's taken on unsympathetic roles, e.g., [italic]Before the Devil Knows You're Dead[/italic], instead of holding out for romantic leads. I was surprised that I liked [italic]Purge[/italic]. This is not the career I would have predicted back when I saw [italic]Dead Poets' Society[/italic].

I think he looks perfectly nice for a 50 year old man. No bad wrinkles, he hasn't suffered the dreaded middle age bloat. Probably could use some moisturizer. But I damn sure wouldn't kick in out of bed.

of course he refers to himself as a feminist

Great hairline at 50, or any age, to be honest.

He, River Phoenix, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Depp, Janeane Garofolo and Lisa Bonet all represented Gen X hipster look with thrift store clothing, long hair and smelling of coffee and bud all day.

Even in Before Sunset he looked gaunt and like he hit the wall hard (whereas Julie Delphi looked more or less the same). And he was only in his early 30s then. So yeah I would definitely say he aged and lost his “boyish good looks” very early on.

Still looks great.

OP's picture must have really good lighting. In other photos he now looks as weathered and furrowed as Harrison Ford.

His mom lived two blocks from me in Bucharest Romania and Ethan came to visit her a few times a year. We ended-up at the same functions frequently and although I’m not into older guys, I still think he’s hot as hell. And incredibly humble and nice.

He looks so handsome and distinguished. Time has been kind to him and that’s wonderful.

R39 Josh Charles surprised me in that he is unassumingly attractive. However, his scenes in Threesome were incredibly sexy. Cast had great chemistry.

Robert Sean Leonard was attractive as a teen and still is as an adult but I still think Ethan looked the best in his prime.

My crush at the time in Dead Poets was Robert Sean Leonard, though i think his role in the movie was part of it. Now looking at r39’s pic my reaction is what was I thinking.

I think Josh Charles was the one that aged better, though I don’t remember seeing him after The Good Wife.

I watched Gattaca in high school bio.

When you run game on Rihanna like you have all night to wander around Vienna and your son is dying of shame.

He was incredibly good in First Reformed and still can’t believe he didn’t get an Oscar nomination.

[quote]He was incredibly good in First Reformed and still can’t believe he didn’t get an Oscar nomination.

He was excellent in it and I thought he would surely get the nomination, if not the win, because he won so many critics circle awards. I was stunned when he wasn't recognized.

Love him. He's always lowkey excellent, like a Kevin Bacon or a Steve Zahn.

Yes, for god's sake why doesn't he get all kinds of plastic surgery and skin treatments so he can look insanely mutilated and we can mock him in a whole other way?

He was crush-worthy in his heyday only because he was in Hollywood movies, and photographed by pros in magazines. He was handsome, but very "average" handsome. He looked like any other cute young guy you might get a crush on anywhere in the world. Now, he looks like an average sort of handsome 50-year-old guy who has kept his weight down. 7.5 out of 10.

LOVE LOVE LOVE "GATTACA"... everything about it, the storyline, the melancholy contemplative music, the cinematography, the costumes, the actors, etc.... one of 2 movies i think are modern day classics along with the fabulous baker boys movie......

i have both movie posters framed in my entertainment room....

isn't there early oscar buzz about his latest movie performance?

Something offputting and rodentlike about him.

His performance in A Midnight Clear as the protagonist Will Knott may be his best.

OP is overreacting. He looks normal for 50, not "hard looking." He's actually still quite cute/hot.

He's always struck me as very Everyman, even though very good looking for an "average" guy.

He looks good at the OP. I've always found him a depressing presence, though.

White people age horribly.

Smoking ages you rapidly. Breaks down the collagen in your face.

He was surprisingly great in Maudie, cast somewhat out of character as a silent, brutish Nova Scotian fisherman. I guess he drew on his inner, gruff, Texan DNA. He said that his brother was so upset that he cried when Obama was elected. That's his background.

Wasn’t there a story about how Will Smith caught Hawke saying something racist backstage at an awards show and punched him?

He looks great and apparently hasn't had any surgery or fillers. I only wish I looked as good as him.

That's the first I've heard of that, R70.

Probably misheard the ‘a’ at the end of the word.

Give It up R64 he's not going to fuck you

Watching him in Before Sunrise now, which I’ve never seen before. He’s adorable and a wonderful actor. He also has a bit of a gut in it, which he doesn’t make any attempt to suck in.

He looks great at the Golden Globes

Chilling performance in The Black Phone. Not an actor I typically follow.

I was browsing some ancient gossip threads and was surprised by the number of bi rumors he had back in the day.

DL's Eldergays all own the amazing Age-Defying Mirror

He looks great, and very hot

He's also joining Pedro Pascal in Almodovar's new western.

Hayley Mills won her bogus honorary Oscar decades before Denzel won either of his.

he was a very smooth-skinned sweet looking boy. He does not however look decrepit in that picture, he looks quite good compared to a "normal" fifty year old, has his hair (probably surgically), lean, etc. That is normal or even slightly decent aging, without way too much surgical intervention. Lean white men age like that, they lose that round fat in the face. So I "approve" I suppose of his appearance. But he supposedly is a POS, a real asshole, and it kind of shows in his eyes here. He looks hardened and not in a hot way, just an asshole way.

One of my first celebrity crushes in "Explorers".

He’s an excellent actor that got screwed out of an Emmy nom for The Good Lord Bird and an Oscar nom for First Reformed.

I like stuff he's been in, but not him very much.

He has this uncomfortable shiftiness he brings to almost every role. He is not as pleasant to watch on screen as Kevin Bacon, but sometimes that unease he always carries works or doesn't outright ruin shit he's in.

How did his mom end up in Romania, r50?

I think he’s a good and sometimes great actor, and I like that he’s proud of being someone who is into intellectual pursuits in this day and age.

He's always been kind of a "So What?" actor to me. I did not understand the hype surrounding him when he was young and I don't understand it now. It looks like a natural age progression to me. I look at him and still say: "So What?"