Ethan Hawke recalled being cognizant of Dead Poets Society co-star Robin Williams ‘ mental health struggles, saying the actor’s “end of his life does not define his life to me.”

In an extended interview with CBS Sunday Morning ‘s Tracy Smith , the Reality Bites star was asked if his viewing of the inimitable 1989 Peter Weir-directed boarding school drama has changed since Williams’ death by suicide at the age of 63 in 2014 .

“It does not fundamentally change the way I watch the movie because, even at 18, I was aware of the complexity of his emotional life,” Hawke said. “I’ve had a lot of depression in my family, and it was obvious to me that all that power and that charisma came at a certain cost. [He was] a deeply, deeply sensitive person, who was highly attuned to the en

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