Why Ethan Hawke Needed Shattered Confidence to Play Lorenz Hart in ‘Blue Moon’

Long before the period drama “Blue Moon” brought Ethan Hawke his fifth Academy Award nomination, the project was a script waiting for Hawke to get older. The waiting began in the early 2010s, after “Me and Orson Welles” writer Robert Kaplow mentioned to that film’s director, Richard Linklater, that he’d written a screenplay about songwriter Lorenz Hart on the opening night of the Broadway smash “Oklahoma!,” the first musical Hart’s longtime co-writer Richard Rodgers had made after replacing him with Oscar Hammerstein II.