Little women pbs maya hawke12/16/2023 ![]() ![]() I couldn’t have wished for a better introduction into the industry, because so many actors, when they’re first starting out, spend a week and a day working here and there, and they’ve done four jobs in a year, but they really only acted for maybe 10 days. This is a big part for your first on-screen acting role. Battles against our own flaws, our own anger, our own resentment, and regret, and these people fight those battles with bravery and honor and self-forgiveness and self-love, and that I think is inspiring. March says, “in this time where we are torn in two, there are smaller battles that can win in our hearts” and I think it has to do with the fact that when you don’t feel in control of the world around you, there are smaller battles that can be won in our hearts. It’s also that the story comes from a moment in time when our country was divided, and I think there’s a line in the show where Mr. ![]() Courtesy of MASTERPIECE on PBS, BBC and Playground All the things that the March family go through throughout their journey are true about the human experience, no matter who you are or where you’re from. I’ve actually been meditating a lot on that recently, and if I had to give an answer, it’s fundamentally because Little Women deals with really true and essential human struggle: grief, love, love-loss, hunger, embarrassment, growing up. Why do you think it was time for this version? This isn’t the first TV production of the story. There was something about this fervor with which she wanted to learn and how she went about life breaking rules and persistently and passionately being herself, even when it wasn’t easy and even when it wasn’t what people wanted her to be doing, really liberated me from things I had been going through when I was a kid. I bought a copy and started to read it, and all of a sudden the story of Jo March-all the sisters, but Jo in particular-really inspired me. Here Hawke-the daughter of actors Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke-tells T&C about taking on the iconic part. Much of the credit for that is due to impressive turns from Emily Watson, Angela Lansbury, Michael Gambon, and the actress playing Jo March, 19-year-old Maya Hawke. The delightful, detailed series directed by Vanessa Caswill revisits the March family in a way that makes their 150-year-old stories feel fresh and-were it not for the period costumes-almost contemporary. That’s most certainly the case for the latest production, a limited series premiering on May 13 on Masterpiece on PBS. And despite the familiarity of the characters and their situation, there’s something about Alcott’s fictional world that remains eternally relatable and comforting. The first volume of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women was published in 1868, but the story of the four March sisters has never strayed far from the zeitgeist, thanks to a series of adaptations on film (six and counting), stage (at least two, not including the operas), and television (four from the BBC alone). ![]()
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