Ethan Hawke has spoken about the experience of walking his daughter Maya down the aisle at her surprise Valentine’s Day wedding, admitting the moment left him at a loss for words.
The actor, 55, reflected on the occasion while speaking to Entertainment tonight at the Time100 Gala in New York City on Thursday, April 23.
“That was pretty funny,” he said, before quickly finding more appropriate language for what he had actually been feeling.
“What really does it is, you know, walking your daughter down the aisle. … I’ve had a lot of emotions in my life, and it was one that I don’t have words for what it feels like. I have no vocabulary for it. I felt like I was 13 years old and experiencing life for the first time, you know?”
He was equally warm to the man his daughter had chosen.
“The man she married is an amazing 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 City on Valentine’s Day, where her parents and her Stranger Things co-stars including 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 actual wedding day.
Maya spoke about the marriage publicly for the first time in March at the premiere of her film Wishful thinkingcalls married life “absolutely fantastic.”
She talked about what had made the relationship feel so natural.
“I feel so lucky to have found my best friend and to have someone I can tell everything to. It makes something like getting married feel like, ‘Oh, sure,’ you know, not like, ‘What?’.”
She had previously given some simple advice on the matter during an appearance in 2024 Zach Sang Show. “I can’t recommend dating 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.
