Hawke is unrecognizable as the 5-foot balding Broadway genius in Richard Linklater's new film. "It was demolishing to my vanity," he says from Berlin.

Hawke stars as the late Broadway icon, the lyricist behind such favorites as "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady Is a Tramp," and more.

Ethan Hawke’s transformative turn in “Blue Moon” - the actor’s first film in a decade with long-time collaborator Richard Linklater - just brought the house down in Berlin. The audience at the Berlinale world premiere were hugely positive for the biographical musical drama,