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.

Ethan Hawke's latest collaboration with Richard Linklater was met with cheers at its Berlin Film Festival world premiere.

U.S. actor Ethan Hawke recalled on Tuesday how he had to wait more than a decade for director Richard Linklater to decide he was old enough to star in his new music movie "Blue Moon". The film, which is competing for the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival,