Ethan Hawke has said he feels sorry for Jennifer Lawrence as she won an Oscar for “buying breakfast in the morning”.
The actor said he is concerned about how young actors manage their careers after achieving success so early, adding that good fortune can “drown you”.
“I feel sorry for a young actress like Jennifer Lawrence who gets so much success out of the gate, because how are you supposed to develop an appropriate work ethic? How do you push yourself to be better when you get an Oscar for buying breakfast in the morning?” he told The Daily Beast.
“It’s the kind of thing one wants to really work for. Tennessee Williams wrote this great essay called The Catastrophe of Success about how failure and success can both be miserable experiences, but failure can at least be fuel to inspire you to be better, while success can just drown you.”
Lawrence won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Silver Linings Playbook and was recently named by Forbes as Hollywood’s highest grossing actor in 2014.
