![]() ![]() But the actor has long used his own aging as a key piece of his artistic arsenal. ![]() ![]() Nearing his 50th birthday, Hawke is, in fact, a decade younger than the man he’s playing in this limited series: abolitionist John Brown, whose ill-fated 1859 raid on the armory at Harpers Ferry helped push the country to the brink of the Civil War. Even though we’ve followed Ethan Hawke’s multi-decade journey from baby-faced pretty boy of Explorers and Dead Poets Society to more seasoned Oscar-nominated leading man, there’s something both surprising and poignant about how frequently his character in Showtime’s limited series The Good Lord Bird is referred to as “the old man.” ![]()
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