By Jenna Zucker TORONTO (Reuters) - Director Ethan Hawke took a deep dive into the fiction of the late American author Flannery O’Connor for his new ...
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In “Wildcat,” which had its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival , Hawke pulls from the author’s fiction to tell her story. He and his daughter Maya Hawke, the film's star, wanted to showcase O’Connor’s ability to capture the human condition in prose. “Wildcat” is meant to tell O’Connor’s stories, but is not a biopic, said Maye Hawke, who plays O’Connor as well as characters from her writing.
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