Robin Williams Never Followed ‘Dead Poets Society’ Script and ‘Didn’t Ask Permission’ to Throw It Aside, Says Ethan Hawke: ‘If He Had an Idea, He Just Did It’

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Ethan Hawke recently joined Vanity Fair for a career retrospective video interview and remained in awe that he got the chance to watch Robin Williams act on the set of 1989’s “ Dead Poets Society .” Hawke was 18 years old at the time and observed that directing Williams was “not an easy thing to do” for filmmaker Peter Weir. “Robin is a comic genius. But dramatic acting was still new to Robin at that time,” Hawke said. “And watching that relationship like, in the room — I was four feet away