Ethan Hawke opened up about the experience of walking his daughter Maya down the aisle at their surprise Valentine’s Day wedding and admitted the moment left him completely speechless.
The actor, 55, reflected on the occasion while speaking with Entertainment tonight at the Time100 Gala in New York City on Thursday, April 23.
“That was very funny,” he said, before quickly finding language more suitable to what he had actually felt.
“What really does it is, you know, walking your daughter down the aisle… I’ve had a lot of feelings in my life, and that was one that I don’t have words for what it feels like. I don’t have the vocabulary for it. I felt like I was 13 years old experiencing life for the first time, you know?”
He was equally affectionate toward the man his daughter had chosen.
“The man she married is an incredible young man, Christian, so I’m a very lucky person,” Hawke said.
Maya, 27, married singer-songwriter Christian Lee Hutson, 35, in a surprise ceremony in New York on Valentine’s Day, attended by her parents and her stranger things co-stars included Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer and Joe Keery.
The couple had been linked since 2023 and apparently kept their engagement completely private until the wedding day.
Maya publicly addressed the marriage for the first time in March at the premiere of her film. delusionscalling married life “absolutely fantastic.”
He talked about what had made the relationship seem so natural.
“I feel so lucky to have found my best friend and to have someone I can tell anything to. It makes something like getting married feel like, ‘Oh, of course,’ you know, not like, ‘What?'”
He had previously offered some simple advice on the topic during a 2024 appearance on The Zach Sang Show. “I can’t recommend hanging out with your friends enough. It’s the best.”
Ethan shares Maya and son Levon, 24, with ex-wife Uma Thurman, and has two more daughters, Clementine, 17, and Indiana, 14, with current wife Ryan Shawhughes.
