Sundance: Ethan Hawke Owes 'Dead Poets Society' Role to a Sony Walkman — hollywoodreporter.com

Ethan Hawke owes his breakout performance in Dead Poets Society to a piece of 1980s technology and music icon Elvis Costello. See more The Scene at Sundance Film Festival 2015 "You know when you're going in before an audition and you're just sitting in a room with all these  other chumps? I was trying to zone them out and I had a walkman," says Hawke. "It was probably 1988 and all I did was blast 'My Aim is True' by Elvis Costello. Before my screen test for Dead Poets Society."

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