EXCLUSIVE: Page Six speaks to ‘The Lowdown’ cast: Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, more
How often do you go to the library? Well, in the last couple years, I haven’t gone hardly at all. I went to the library in Tulsa because I brought my kids down there um when we were shooting the show. The libraries are kind of a great place to center yourself in the city and meet people and um I don’t know, find the center of the community. But libraries are one of my favorite places in any city. 100%. What’s your favorite branch in Manhattan? Um well the on 42nd Street but well besides that one that’s kind of Brooklyn the one right by Prospect Park that’s my favorite. Right. And um what books are on your nightstand right now? My nightstand right now is I’m reading Jim Thompson’s The Getaway Again because we’re trying to dream about a second season of this show and I have a collection of Thomas Merin essays and that’s some random things that I don’t even know what they are. Um, my last question is did you get told when you were younger uh to get your teeth fixed by like agents or managers or Yeah, definitely. Everybody wanted me to get my teeth fixed. For some reason, I didn’t want to. Why? Why do you think you didn’t want to? I uh I’m a little allergic to everybody trying to look the same and I just thought I’d be proud of myself and um I didn’t think my teeth were going to be the deciding factor in whether or not I had any talent. Tell me about the podcast. Oh, so the podcast drops this week. It’s called What Are We Even Doing? And I talk to young creatives uh about their journey, about their creative journey, how they use social, what’s important to them. Um and it’s a mix of people, comedians, uh musicians, actors, creatives, of all types. And and I’m learning. I’m having a great time on the way. What have you learned? Oh, so this is a process where um they tell me a little bit about just just where they came from, how they started. So, every story is different. We talk a little bit about how how social works for them, their experience and even they haven’t been around that long as highs and lows of their journey. So really each person it’s individual from each person their own how they got to Los Angeles what’s important to them. Um and then I also have some people from New York as well talking about their the process they’re doing where they are in their moment in their career. So every every story is there and interesting. And then we also play a little game with each one of them, a special little game like we have one where we trade Shakespeare and insults. Um she’s she’s a great reader and she has a and so I was like well I love Shakespeare. Let’s see if we can come do something together. So we created insults and Shakespeare was it was very fun. Um why did you decide to uh focus on on Gen Z? Right. Right. Well, I think it’s a generation that I don’t I don’t know much about. And uh so it’s like this is my way of exploring and learning about the next the next group that’s coming up, what they have to offer, and what they’re doing. And and I get to share a little bit about my experience at the rifle age of 66 about my journey and how things are different certainly within the world in Los Angeles and the film world and theater world. So it’s kind of a meeting of the minds somewhere between and hopefully we learn a little bit of each from each other. Right. Um, how much fun is it playing a uh I don’t know a naughty not naughty but not a nice politician. Well, he appears to be not a nice politician. Yes. But he he ultimately has a good heart which and we’re going to get to we’re going to get to that point. But in the beginning he has Yeah, there’s a lot of things that you know it’s true for every character in this in the show. There are there are things that people do that they’re proud of and things that they’re not proud of. But they ultimately it’s all for a good it’s all for a good a good reason. there’s a reason behind it, right? And that’s and that’s the journey that we get to see. That’s what the the writers have done so beautifully in creating these characters, right? Ethan is like the coolest guy ever. And I have to say with Ethan, like as is Sterling, but I’ll talk to him and about him in a second. Like with with Ethan, he makes you feel welcome the second he meets you. Uh, and I think maybe he knows like he’s a massive star, but he’s so not that in real life. so down there and so like just let’s run lines, let’s do this, what do you think? You know, and right away we have we play best of friends and um and we became good friends fairly quickly. And speaking with Sterling, what Sterland’s direction is so fantastic. One of the things he did, which I love, is my character, you meet my character in episode one. Uh we’re Ethan and I are both at this estate sale and I come up to him and whisper something in his ear. But anyway, Sterland says right before it begins, he goes, “When you go in there, just go up, smack him in the ass.” And I thought that’s brilliant because the second that happened, I thought, well, this is our relationship. If I’m comfortable enough smacking him in the ass in a public place, you know, that’s what we are. And then Ethan, without a beat, at the end of the scene, smack me in the ass without asking about, we’re going to get along great. Yeah. Um, I’m obsessed with it for many reasons, but mainly I have to say because of best insurance and I just [Music] know Parker lost Bizzy. Let’s be honest with you. I blame Parker. I It wasn’t her fault, but had she packed a little bit better? You know, they probably fell out at the airport. I don’t know. that scene where she goes into the store. It’s the the bear and the bee costume. Still I Yeah, she just texted me yesterday. We’re hopefully going to hang out next month. Um, are you into antiques in real life? Uh, a little bit. Like I collect um I collect uh missions. So those I don’t know if they’re considered antique antiques. So mission like arts and crafts 19 mission style. Yes. Right. So, I don’t know if that is technically an antique, but that’s sort of Yeah. And how like what do you have? What how many pieces do you have? I have some stickly furniture and things like that. Please don’t rob me. Um Yeah. But um that’s pretty fancy. Yeah, it’s kind of fancy. Yeah, I got it kind of cuz my grandma had it and when she passed on, I got some of her stuff and I became aware of it and and it’s so solid and I just really like it. Yeah. Did you get hired for this because you were born in Tulsa and for no other reason? Well, if that’s the case, I’m a lucky lucky lucky woman. But um I think you know Sterling and I knew each other a little bit. I certainly knew of him, but we had met briefly and sort of he knew how much I love reservation dogs. So I’m just I’m lucky that he thought of me for this. Was it we I assume you shot it in Tulsa, right? Oh, all was it weird to go back home. It was It was really It wasn’t so much weird. It was just uh It was surreal. It was really surreal because um a lot of my family is no longer with us, so they weren’t there. So, it started this whole new chapter of my life in Tulsa, which is wild because I haven’t lived there in decades, but I’ve always gone back, my family, to visit. I really wanted my son to know where I came from. It was really important. But once my parents were both gone, I didn’t go back as much. It was too painful. So, I hadn’t been home in 5 years, which is the longest I’ve ever been away from home. And so, Sterling called me up and we talked or we were on we were out. We were talking about this script and within about 10 minutes into our conversation, he said, “Jenie, you want to come home?” I said, “Yeah, I want to come home. Um, okay. Your first movie was Basic Instinct, right? Then you followed that up with The Firm, right? Sorry, did I make a motion? I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. Keep talking. Basic Instinct, The Firm, which were two huge hits. Were you like a little bit like it’s like when someone goes to a casino and they win the first time? Were you like, “This is easy.” Like I I I could drink it. Um, not so much it was easy because it was really overwhelming. I I was actually one of those you better watch what you ask for because you just might get it because it was really a heady time. It was really intense. So, uh when I think back at that time, it was just like a Dorothy and the tornado. I mean, it was really intense. Uh a lot of good, but a lot of overwhelming. like, “Oh my god, this is not what I thought it was going to be.” It was just really big. Life was really, really big. So, how did you And it makes me laugh, too. Water World was your third movie, right? Which was going to be this giant hit and it was a block. So, it must have been like, well, it wasn’t so much. It was more of because it wasn’t really a blog. I mean, internationally, but back then, the way they reported on it. So I knew that it was doing really well. It was a really again it was another one of those strange like this is I guess entertainment is just you just don’t know when you’re making something how it’s going to come across. Uh you just don’t take anything for granted and you don’t assume anything because you don’t know what the audience is going to come out for it. They were really gunning for that movie. So I just learned that had a great project here. If you’re sitting there with popcorn and it’s now I don’t even know what I mean if you’re screaming whatever. But in the first episode, it’s just not a movie until people are watching it. Anything can happen.
Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan and more of “The Lowdown” cast spoke to Page Six about their careers and their experience filming the show. Watch the full video to learn more.
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