Ethan Hawke hoards clothes.
The 54-year-old actor - who is the star of Canada Goose's Snow Goose campaign - has admitted that once he finds an item he loves, he will wear it to death, and he still wears t-shirts that are more than three decades-old.
He told Esquire: “I border on a hoarder. Anything I find that I like, I’ll wear until it absolutely dies. My kids make fun of me. I mean, I have T-shirts [seen in] paparazzi photos from me from the ’90s, and I’m still wearing them.”
The 'Dead Poets Society' star gets to wear different clothes for the varying roles he takes on and says it made him realise how much the way you dress affects your "self-esteem", admitting he wanted to "burn" the ensembles he wore as Vincent Freeman in the dystopian sci-fi flick 'Gattaca' in 1997.
He shared: “It’s a fascinating experiment to force yourself to wear other characters’ clothes and realise how the way that you dress impacts your self-esteem and your awareness of yourself and your identity. As a species, we’re so judgmental about what people look like and what that telegraphs and communicates about who somebody is, and you realise by playing all these different characters how incredibly flexible that is and what a faulty line of judgment it really is, and how you can actually feel good in lots of different kinds of clothes."
Ethan admitted: “There are clothes you want to burn when you finish the character. On the other hand, when I did the film Gattaca, I wished I had the energy to dress like that my whole life. The design for that movie was so clean and elegant and classy, and it’s just beautiful. From the sets to the costumes, the design element of that movie really taught me, Wow, I would love to move through the world like this. It just requires a tremendous amount of effort.
He added: “And then there’s other cases. I did this movie, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, and I just played a real schlep. Poor guy was so sad, a loser, and something about the outfits just telegraphed it, and I couldn’t wait for that job to be over. You really start to relate to this sad dog of a human being, and you can’t wait to shed their skin.”
