Ethan Hawke Talks Predestination; Directed by the Spieirig Brothers — collider.com

It may be strange to write – but Ethan Hawke over the past five-years has become perhaps the most accomplished genre actor of our day.  Between Daybreakers, Sinister, The Purge and Getaway, Hawke has shown a penchant for bringing the same gravitas he’s lent to more prestigious art house fare into the horror and science fiction genres.  In the excellent Predestination, he stars as a temporal agent sent into the past to recruit a young man (Sarah Snook) in an effort to catch a mad bomber. Things, of course, are not as they appear.  The film’s pretty much a two-character piece and Hawke, with sunken voice and hollowed eyes, more than carries his own as the more cynical and malevolent of the two.  It’s an egoless performance – Hawke unafraid to delve into the darker and more unlikeable aspects of the character.  Hawke treats the material seriously – just as seriously as he would a Boyhood or a Hamlet – and that, in turn, makes all the difference.

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