For actress Maya Hawke, the term “you can always come back home” is more than a popular phrase.
“I just got myself a home a couple of blocks away from my mom,” the actress, 27, revealed to People in an interview published on Sunday, July 5. “I’m so excited to finally be able to put some roots down.”
Maya is the daughter of famed actors Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke. The pair, who wed in 1998 before ultimately calling it quits in 2005, also share son Levon Hawke. (Hawke, 55, went on to marry wife Ryan Hawke in 2008 and welcomed two more children, while Thurman, 56, shares daughter Luna with ex Arpad Busson.)
The Stranger Things star’s new abode, located in upstate New York, has made it that much more pleasant for the actress to work on her latest project, The God of the Woods, a TV adaptation of Liz Moore’s 2024 novel of the same name.
“It shoots in the town that I grew up in,” Hawke explained. “I am so excited to be at home doing a job I love and care about, so I’m not in that panic spiral of being home and being like, ‘When will I ever work again?’ Usually it’s like, you’re home, and you’re panicked about whether you’ll ever work again, or you’re not home, and you’re working and you miss home.”
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She continued, “I feel like I have the best summer of my life going on, where I get to experience neither thing at the same time.”
Maya, who married Christian Lee Hutson in a surprise Valentine’s Day wedding ceremony in New York City, has been candid about her close relationship with her mom — and vice versa.
“What isn’t a mother-daughter bond?” Thurman told People back in 2023 of their relationship. “Good communication. That is a big challenge, to make sure we keep communication healthy, strong and open with your family.”
Maya, for her part, told the outlet at the time that her parents’ decision to read to her at a young age contributed to their tight-knit bond.
“Being read to is so important for kids. I’ve now supplemented it with audiobooks in my adult life because it made such an impact on me,” she explained. “I have a learning disability and I didn’t do so well in school and was slow to read. So being read to changed my ability to comprehend language and changed my life.”
She continued, “I really hope that every child gets that opportunity.”
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