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Ethan Hawke revealed he handwrites every script to memorize his lines. Sydney Sweeney: How did you prep for something like that? I mean, the immense amount of dialogue. Ethan Hawke: You really want to know? Sydney Sweeney: I’m always interested in how other people memorize everything. Ethan Hawke: Well, what I do, and I started doing this a really long time ago, is I handwrite everything like it’s my journal. When I’m memorizing, I’m not memorizing from a typewritten final draft page. I don’t want to have that in my brain, and I don’t want irrelevant stage directions to be part of it. Because sometimes scripts say, “Upset, he says: ‘Can I have a drink?’” and you can’t undo it. Sydney Sweeney: You can’t. You see it. You see it in your brain. Ethan Hawke: You see it in your brain: “Upset: Can I have a drink?” I’m like, I’m not sure. There are a lot of ways to play “upset.” It might be, “Can I have a drink?” You might even laugh on it, and that reveals something. There are all these possibilities, so you try to get rid of all that. I handwrite the whole script out. This script took forever to handwrite. Sydney Sweeney: I can imagine. Ethan Hawke: Then I do it again to see what I remember and what I don’t. Sydney Sweeney: Oh, you write it from memory? Ethan Hawke: I try to write it from memory. Then I look and see what I got wrong. That process really helps me realize, “No, it’s not that word. That word goes over here. Oh, I already used that word.” It also helps me become extremely critical of the writer, in a positive way. I can notice things like, “I’m using this same word four different times. It doesn’t seem like my character would keep using that word. Maybe this would be a better word.” You can start having those kinds of conversations. Then I try to record it with no acting. I’ll take three pages or something, try to learn them, record myself with no performance at all, then compare it to the script and see what I got wrong. Sometimes I change something that I actually like better, and then I can work that in and figure it out.

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