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Ethan Hawke endured 'one of the hardest summers' shooting The Weight

Ethan Hawke experienced "one of the hardest summers" of his life filming The Weight. The 55-year-old star plays down-on-his-luck widower Samuel Murphy in the new movie that is set during the Great Depression and revealed how some scenes pushed him to the limit physically, even though it wasn't a typical action picture.

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