Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman’s son Levon lands first leading role

Levon Hawke, the kid of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, has actually landed his very first leading function in a function movie, starring opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins in the indie drama Twenty-Seven

Range reported the news on Thursday 5 November.

The 24-year-old will play a 27-year-old striving film writer who is developing relationships, handling obsessive-compulsive condition and attempting to burglarize the movie market.

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Hopkins, 88, plays his good friend and coach, an 80-year-old previous television star who is now a theatre teacher and has Parkinson’s illness.

Gregory Caruso composed and directed the movie, and his business Bristol Pictures is producing it, along with David Worthen Brooks and Dustin Cook.

Filming is under method in Los Angeles. No other cast members have actually been called.

Caruso stated he composed the character with Hopkins in mind.

“I composed this character hoping somebody like Anthony Hopkins would play him,” he stated. He included: “He brings a proficiency to the function I still can’t completely explain.”

Hawke made his screen launching in the 2023 Apple television+ series The Crowded Roomand has actually given that had bit parts in Zoë Kravitz’s 2024 directorial launching Blink Twice and the 2024 western The Thicket

He likewise appeared together with Timothée Chalamet in the 2025 movie Marty Supreme

He has a phase background too. In 2024, he directed Image Dayan initial play that he likewise composed.

Working opposite among the most well known stars of his generation provides the young star a considerable action up from supporting parts, and puts him at the centre of a movie developed on the bond in between 2 characters at really various phases of life.

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