Ethan Hawke RemembersBefore Sunrise's World Premiere with Julie Delpy 30 Years Ago: 'Great Night'

Mar. 15, 2025

Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater and Julie Delpy at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival.Photo:Ethan Hawke/Instagram

Ethan Hawke/Instagram

Ethan Hawkeis throwing it back toBefore Sunrise!

Hawke, 54, shared three images of him, filmmaker Richard Linklater and actress Julie Delpy toInstagramon Monday, Jan. 27 as he recalled in a caption thatBefore Sunrisepremiered at theSundance Film Festival30 years ago in 1995. Hawke’s post featured an image of him, Delpy, now 55, and Linklater, now 64, on the movie’s set and at its world premiere in Utah.

“This time 30 years ago our movieBefore Sunrisedebuted at Sundance. Redford himself introduced it,” Hawke wrote in caption, referencing actor and Sundance founderRobert Redford. “Great night.”

Before Sunrisemarked Linklater’s fourth film as a director. The movie follows American 20-something Jesse (Hawke) and a young French woman named Céline (Delpy), who meet on a train in Europe and impulsively decide to spend one night together roaming Vienna before Jesse flies back to the United States.

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Julie Delpy, Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke on set of Before Sunrise.Columbia Pictures/Getty

Columbia Pictures/Getty

Delpy, Hawke and Linklater have considered continuing the romance series beyondBefore Midnight, but Delpy most recently stated in 2021 that the group had agreed they did not have a pitch for a fourth installment that they were creatively satisfied with.

“What happened was that we — all three of us — agreed that we couldn’t come up with something good for a fourth one. It’s that simple. We didn’t fight. We’re not on bad terms. Everyone’s happy… It’s so much drama for nothing," she toldVarietyat that time, after reports suggested Delpy had declined to participate in a fourthBeforemovie. “We just didn’t come up with a good idea.”

While Delpy clarified that she, Hawke and Linklater had discussed ideas for a new installment, she described the conversations as “basically an idea that none of us liked. That was the end of it. It was half of a bad idea that went around and we were like, ‘Let’s not do it.’ ”

source: people.com