Ethan Hawke and Maya Hawke have a running joke about ‘Wildcat,’ their Flannery O’Connor movie

Ethan Hawke, left, and Maya Hawke attend the premiere of "Wildcat", hosted by Dior and The Cinema Society, at the Angelika Film Center on Thursday, April 11, 2024, in New York. (Photo by CJ Rivera/Invision/AP)

Ethan Hawke and his daughter Maya Hawke have a running joke about their Flannery O’Connor movie.

“Wildcat,” which Ethan directed and Maya stars in as O’Connor, was made with complete sincerity. It’s a deeply creative investigation into the Southern Catholic novelist and short story writer behind “A Good Man is Hard to Find” that dips in and out of both her imagination and her real life.