Ethan Hawke is opening up about his daughter Maya Hawke’s surprise Valentine’s Day wedding to singer-songwriter Christian Lee Hutson.
“That was pretty fun,” Ethan, 55, told Entertainment Tonight on Thursday, April 23, on the Time 100 Gala in Recent York City.
“What really makes it’s, you already know, walking your daughter down the aisle. … I’ve had numerous feelings in my life, and that was one I even have no words for what that seems like,” the actor gushed. “I even have no vocabulary for that. I felt like I used to be 13 experiencing life for the primary time, you already know?”
Ethan went on to praise Maya’s recent husband.
“The person she married is a tremendous young man, Christian, so I’m a really lucky individual,” Ethan said.
Ethan shares Stranger Things actress Maya, 27, and son Levon, 24, with ex-wife Uma Thurman. He also shares daughters Clementine, 17, and Indiana, 14, together with his current wife, Ryan Shawhughes.
Maya and Christian, 35, wed in a surprise Recent York City ceremony on February 14 attended by Maya’s parents and her Stranger Things costars, including Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer and Joe Keery.
In March, Maya addressed her nuptials for the primary time on the premiere of her movie Wishful Pondering, calling married life “absolutely improbable.”
“I’m a really, very lucky one that’s very joyful without delay,” Maya told People on the time. “And yeah, [I] couldn’t be more grateful.”
“I feel so lucky to have found my best friend and to have someone I can tell anything to,” the actress added to Page Six. “It makes something like getting married feel like, ‘Oh, after all,’ you already know, not like, ‘What?’ And I’m very, very, very lucky, so I’m really joyful.”
Maya told the outlet that she was “ecstatically joyful” following her wedding. “I mean … love is the most effective,” she said.
Maya and Christian were first linked in 2023 and appeared to maintain their engagement under wraps until their wedding day.
“I cannot recommend highly enough dating your mates. It’s the most effective,” Maya said of finding love along with her spouse during a 2024 appearance on The Zach Sang Show. “They know you, and as a human being who has dated other people. They really know you as a one that has feelings … not only a bit of paper for them to project their image of [the] perfect girlfriend onto. It’s the most effective to feel seen in that way.”