Uma Thurman is the matriarch of a starry household. Along with her ex-husband Ethan Hawke, Thurman shares two youngsters who’re discovering vital success within the movie and tv spheres. Maya Hawke has gained recognition for her roles in “Stranger Issues,” “Asteroid Metropolis,” and “Wildcat,” along with releasing three albums as a singer/songwriter. Levon Hawke additionally appeared in “Wildcat,” in addition to “Blink Twice,” “The Thickett,” and “The Crowded Room.” Each have just lately dipped their toes in off-Broadway reveals — Maya in “Eurydice” and Levon in “Ghosts.”
Thurman informed Seth Meyers on June 24 that she is so happy with her youngsters (which additionally consists of 12-year-old Luna), and that she is having fun with watching them ascend to the highest echelons of the trade that made her well-known.
“As a mom, you realize, actually, I’m so happy with them and so they’re so collectively, and actually, seeing your children type of surpass you is superior,” she mentioned (by way of Folks). Meyers mentioned that he wouldn’t describe them as having “surpassed” her, however Thurman mentioned that she thought “they’re superb.”
“I feel they’re so gifted. And so that you’re all the time anxious that the circumstances all assist the most effective consequence. The one factor that makes me nervous is I would like them to have the most effective circumstances,” she defined.
Thurman herself has been busy just lately. Beginning July 11, she’s going to co-star within the revival of “Dexter” on Paramount+ with Showtime, and on July 2, Netflix will drop “The Previous Guard 2,” through which the star returns to the motion style that buoyed her profession with the “Kill Invoice” movies. Thurman informed Jimmy Fallon on June 17 that she didn’t have any coaching when she stepped into her “Previous Guard” function.
“Oh, if solely I may have educated,” she mentioned. “No, I got here on to do it type of on the finish. So I had no coaching. I used to be like, ‘Oh, yeah, a sword. I feel I maintain it like this.’” She added that co-star Charlize Theron was an enormous motive why she signed on for the movie. “This one appeared completely different [from other action movies she was offered] as a result of in ‘Previous Guard 1’ — Charlize was simply so epic in it. And so I assumed, ‘Nicely, I may go do that for her in that. The place she’s type of taking the style there. I’ll go assist her and combat her and battle her out.’”
