Ethan Hawke: Robin Williams was ‘incredibly irritating’ on ‘Dead Poets’ set
nypost.comDaily Mail reported.“At 18, I found that incredibly irritating,” the four-time Oscar nominee continued. “He wouldn’t stop — and I wouldn’t laugh at anything he did.”Hawke was in attendance to pick up the President’s Award, which is presented at the annual fest to actors, directors and producers “who have contributed in a fundamental way to the development of contemporary world cinema,” according to Deadline.“There was this scene in the film when he makes me spontaneously make up a poem in front of the class,” Hawke said of his iconic co-star, who earned a Best Actor Oscar nod for his performance as John Keating, a maverick teacher using poetry to spark his boarding school students — including Hawkes as earnest Todd Anderson — to new heights.
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