The Joe Rogan Experience - #2425 - Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke is an actor, filmmaker, and author. He recently starred in the film “Blue Moon,” available on major streaming platforms and in select theaters, and the FX series “The Lowdown,” available for streaming on HULU.https://bluemoonfilm.com/home/www.fxnetworks.com/shows/the-lowdownhttps://linktr.ee/ethanhawke Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Get a free welcome kit with your first subscription of AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/joerogan Get Gameday Deals all season long only on Uber Eats. Order Now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 2h 28m
Broadcast on: 11 Dec 2025
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-You're a good one, Cass. Check it out. -The Joe Rogan, experience. -Shoring my day, Joe Rogan podcast, my night. All day. ♪♪♪ -It's a dog. Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you. Great to meet you, man. It's weird when you see someone in so many fucking movies and then you meet them in real life. Like, "Okay, just a regular person, right there." -Yeah, staring me in the face. -Right there. -He just took a leak. -Yeah. [ Laughter ] Dude, you've been in some fucking banger movies, man. It's like, you've had an incredible career. -Yeah. -Pull that sucker -- -Yeah, pull it towards me? -Yeah, it's all right. Very good. Yeah, it's been a long, strange trip. -It's been a wild one, huh? -Yeah. -When did you start acting? -How old were you? -All right. So, like 12 years old, I don't have a winter sport. My mother doesn't know what to do with me. And my next-door neighbor -- he lived, like, four houses down. He took an acting class at the Paul Robeson Center of Performing Arts. And so, my mother signed me up so that I could get picked up by his mom, you know, taken to acting class in the winter and get dropped off, you know, and be at home. And I went there, and this head of a local theater company came by to teach an improv seminar. I kind of think -- I'm a 12 years old, right? And afterwards, in the parking lot, he said, "Hey, you want to be in a play?" I said, "What do you mean?" He said, "I got a part of a guy who's a knight." He said, "You get to have a sword." And I said, "Well, I have any lines." He said, "You'll have one line." I said, "All right, cool." And I asked my mom, and she said, "Do I have to pay?" You know? And I said, "I don't think so. I think they're going to pay me." So, I went and I did this play. And it was George Bernard Shaw's St. Joan at the McCarter Theatre in New Jersey. And it was a real play. Yeah, it was a proper play. And it was an incredible experience, to be honest with you,

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