Some news of Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy's partner in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset: he's returning to theatre in Blood from a Stone, directed by Scott Elliott for the New Group at Theatre Row in New York.

In rehearsing this, how did you get that family feeling going? I kept thinking, "That's a real family there. I understand that." It just really communicated to me. How do you, as actors, rehearse that?
EH: I dunno. That's just luck of the draw. I remember the first day I met Julie Delpy [his romantic co-star in 1995's "Before Sunrise" and 2004's "Before Sunset"], I couldn't stand her, but the first day I acted with her, I thought, "I'm going to know this woman my whole life." Sometimes you can play well with others, sometimes you can't — and it's not entirely up to you. It's a real challenge when you’re putting together a team of people who have to play together.

The Herald Scotland published yesterday an interview with Ethan Hawke, in which the actor reminisces about his career - and what Before Sunset represented for him:

It hardly helped that these events [his divorce from Uma Thurman] coincided with the release of Before Sunset, Richard Linklater’s sequel to 1995’s Before Sunrise, which had featured Hawke and Julie Delpy as two backpackers who spend a night to remember together in Vienna. This time, with Hawke and Delpy assisting Linklater on the script, we were reacquainted with the characters almost a decade on. Hawke’s Jesse was now a novelist, a father and entangled in an unhappy marriage. Sound familiar? Even Hawke can’t deny it. “In some strange way, those characters are alter egos of Julie and I,” he says. “My favourite kind of writing and my favourite kind of performing is when you can tell it cost somebody something. That’s why Before Sunset will always be very dear to my heart. It was never a job.”

While that particular chapter did end happily, with Hawke, Delpy and Linklater collectively nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay (they lost to Sideways)...