Actor Ethan Hawke recently hinted that the 1995 film Before Sunrise may get an additional installment.
The 45-year-old actor, star of the original drama and its sequels, admitted that a follow-up feels “done” but was open to the scope of a new chapter.
“You never know. There is this symmetry to these three, there’s something beautiful about the way the third one ends with the couple fighting, and the first one begins with the couple in their forties fighting. There’s something about it that feels done,” Hawke told Empire Magazine.
“That doesn’t mean that there isn’t a new beginning, a new chapter…” he then added.
Hawke plays a prominent novelist alongside Julie Delpy, and recalls that a certain fight scene in Before Midnight (a 2013 sequel) makes him feel proud as an actor.
“I’m more proud of that scene than any other single thing I’ve been a part of. The first two films are all about romantic projection, and we had this idea for the third film to really try to explore what happens when you get everything you want,” he added.
“There are a lot of movies about break-ups, and a lot of movies about people falling in love, but very few made about a couple who have been together ten years. It was something really interesting to me, to visit people in the middle of their lives, who still believe in their craving for love, but they’re not kids anymore, and life can’t be about what might be, it has to be about what is happening. That’s much deeper water to swim in.”
All films in the franchise have stuck to a somewhat realistic timeline by following the couple’s love life over the years. 2004’s Before Sunset picks up nine years after the original, while Before Midnight resumes 18 years later.