Telluride: Ethan and Maya Hawke and Laura Linney chat about their new Flannery O’Connor biopic 'Wildcat' and the complexities of the author's life.
Two films by British directors — Andrew Haigh’s metaphysical gay romance ‘All of Us Strangers’ and Emerald Fennell’s ‘Saltburn’ — debuted the same night.Maya fell in love in her late teens with Flannery O’Connor’s “A Prayer Journal” [a posthumously published collection of private musings on faith and fiction that the author wrote while studying at the Iowa Writers Workshop].
] I feel like you saw “A Prayer Journal” as like a talisman of sorts of how to begin a life in the arts. It gave you permission, as a young person, to be like, “Just because I’m doubting myself and worried I’m mediocre, that doesn’t mean I am. Or just because I am right now doesn’t mean I always will be.”The key thing is that, at the beginning, you have to get rid of your desire for other people to recognize you as great.
How did you arrive at the idea of interweaving scenes from O’Connor’s life with scenes from some of her stories?I had just turned 50 when Maya approached me with this idea about making a movie about Flannery. And something about turning 50 made me incredibly depressed that my inner life, my spiritual life — whatever kind of corny vocabulary words we have for this — I thought so much about it when I was young and here I am 50 years old and I’m still on first base.
Then I had this realization that my discipline, my faith, was rooted in the performing arts and that Ion first base, that I was manifesting my faith in people and myself in the world and I was exploring it through human creativity. And I thought, well, that’s kind of interesting. And Maya started talking about Flannery and how she was a very serious spiritual person and had dedicated her life to her inner work, and the greatest manifestation of that is in her writing.
I read [O’Connor’s] collected works, and if you read the short stories back to back, there’s kind of this portrait of her that arises. It’s very complex, but through the work, you see the human being. And I thought, well, let’s make a movie about imagination.That’s how you raised me. A dedicated practice in the arts is a dedication of your life.
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