Ethan Hawke Says Starring In 'True West' Revival Is 'Very Meaningful' To Him!

Ethan Hawke visited The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Monday night (January 7) to talk all about his return to Broadway in the current revival of Sam Shepard‘s True West!

The 48-year-old Oscar-nominated actor revealed that he first saw the play when he was about 14-years-old and confessed, “It made me want to be an actor, or be involved in whatever they were doing. So to get the chance to do it now is very meaningful to me.”

Ethan has worked on numerous Shepard plays, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Buried Child, but he reveres True West. “Buried Child is an amazing piece of literature but is hardly the card-carrying audience-pleaser that True West is,” Ethan said. “I said it!”

“He is also one of the great American poets we’ve ever had,” Ethan said of Shepard. “He had the swagger of a real cowboy and he had the brains to back it up.”

Currently in previews, True West officially opens at the American Airlines Theatre on January 24!