Raymond & Ray EXCLUSIVE: Ethan Hawke, Ewan McGregor on depicting Rodrigo Garcia’s ‘profound concepts’

Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke might be seen enjoying brothers in AppleTV+’s upcoming movie, Raymond & Ray. The actors who’ve been within the trade since years work collectively for the primary time and produce to life the black comedy directed by famed Colombian and Mexican t filmmaker, Rodrigo Garcia which releases on October 21, 2022 on streaming. 

In a roundtable interview with the movie’s lead stars which Pinkvilla was part of, we requested Ethan and Ewan concerning the challenges of starring in a movie like Raymond & Ray which captures deep emotional turmoil and drawing from their very own experiences for a similar. Raymond & Ray stars McGregor and Ethan as half-brothers Raymond and Ray who reunite when their estranged father dies advert a lot to their shock additionally reveals his ultimate want was for them to dig his grave. Amid bidding farewell to their father, the 2 course of their childhood recollections, the impression their father had on their lives and the type of males they’ve turned out to be. 

Ewan McGregor on enjoying Raymond

Ewan McGregor opened up about approaching characters like Raymond and mentioned, “I do not spend quite a lot of time attempting to think about one thing in my life that is pertinent to me, after all, it is in there as a result of that is the one factor we have now to attract on, our creativeness and our expertise of the world and folks in it.” The actor who has performed characters similar to Obi-Wan Kenobi up to now performs Raymond who remains to be coming to phrases along with his spouse leaving him adopted by the information of his estranged father’s demise. 

Ethan Hawke on drawing from Rodrigo Garcia’s experiences

Ethan who essays Ray, a recovering addict and erstwhile musician within the movie spoke about director Rodrigo Garia’s imaginative and prescient and mentioned, “When performing is at its finest, you are touching the identical hearth that lit the author, you are diving into that creativeness. I feel for Rodrigo, there’s a number of mourning on this movie, he is meditating on some actually profound concepts that he is been wrestling with via his life and so in a manner Ewan and I are wanting in the direction of him as a information via the map of the script.” The actor additional added how capturing Ray was larger than simply his personal life experiences. 

Filmmaker Rodrigo Garcia, who’s the son of famous Colombian novelist, Gabriel García Márquez who handed away in 2014 has maintained that whereas the film is just not autobiographical, it explores the best way that relations view their dad and mom, and the way the identical individuals are seen by the remainder of the world. It additionally digs deeper into the concepts of grief and whether or not there’s a proper or improper approach to categorical and expertise the identical. This movie is Garcia’s second collaboration with McGregor who additionally starred in his 2015 movie Final Days within the Desert. The filmmaker’s previous works additionally embrace 9 Lives, Mom and Little one, and Albert Nobbs. Whereas Ethan had circuitously labored with Garcia earlier than this movie, he first met the filmmaker as a cameraman and had remained shut ever since.

Whereas Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor faucet into the sombre aspect of issues in Raymond and Ray, the duo have starred in 2022’s largest exhibits earlier this yr after Hawke made his Marvel debut with Moon Knight as Arthur Harrow alongside Oscar Isaac whereas McGregor starred within the first solo challenge based mostly round his fan favorite Star Wars character, Obi-Wan Kenobi. The actor additionally reunited with co-star Hayden Christensen who essays Darth Vader after over 17 years for his or her present. 

As for Raymond & Ray, the movie additionally boasts of a robust supporting solid together with the likes of Sophie Okonedo, Maribel Verdú, and Vondie Curtis-Corridor in supporting roles. The movie beforehand premiered at Toronto Movie Competition final month and in addition had a restricted theatrical launch within the US on October 14. As for its streaming launch, the movie produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, together with Bonnie Curtis, and Julie Lynn is slated to launch on October 21.