His newest collaboration with director Richard Linklater was shot primarily in Dublin, with production also taking place at Ardmore Studios in Wicklow.

Set in March 1943, Blue Moon follows Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart on the opening night of Oklahoma!, a musical by his former colleague Richard Rodgers.

The film, written by Robert Kaplow, stars Hawke as Hart, Andrew Scott as Rodgers and Margaret Qualley as Elizabeth Weiland, a Yale student with whom Hart is infatuated.

It also features Irish actor Simon Delaney as Oscar Hammerstein.

The majority of the story is set in Sardi’s, the legendary restaurant on Manhattan’s West 44th Street, but for the film Linklater and his team recreated it in Dublin.

Hawke, a long-time collaborator of Linklater’s best known for the Before trilogy and Boyh

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