Only a decade ago you might have seen Ethan Hawke as one of those under-rated actors who seemed to put plenty of intensity and passion into his roles without adequate recognition, whether for big movies like Dead Poet’s Society or Training Day (which earned him his first Academy Award nomination), for remakes of classics like Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Great Expectations, or John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13, for landmark science fiction like Gattaca or true adventure like Alive.  Then things changed.  Was it his measured performance in another remake — John Ford’s The Magnificent Seven — his zany space pimp in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, or his take on villains that cinched his spot as one of the best actors of his generation, as Arthur Harrow in Marvel’s Moon Knight, or the creepy murderer The Grabber in The Black Phone?  Whatever it was, he’s in it for good.

Hawke’s next project is an FX series coming to Hulu, The Lowdown.  Apparently following up on Sylvester Stallone’s Tulsa King, this ten-episode “Tulsa Noir” series finds Hawke as Lee Raybon, a man after the truth, which results in him getting beat up–a lot.  From Reservation Dogs’ Sterlin Harjo, the series boasts a must-watch cast, including Keith David, Kyle MacLachlan, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Michael Hitchcock, Peter Dinklage, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, and Tim Blake Nelson.  Check out the trailer for The Lowdown:

The Lowdown will premiere on Tuesday, September 23, at 8 p.m. Central on FX with two episodes, with new episodes arriving on Tuesdays.  Each episode will stream on Hulu the day after airing on FX.

C.J. Bunce / Editor / borg