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Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan play geniuses in ‘Tesla’

by Associated Press
| August 23, 2020 12:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Ethan Hawke has portrayed several real people in recent years, including musician Chet Baker and abolitionist John Brown, but his new role as pioneering inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla presented the challenge of playing a genius. In the new independent film “Tesla” by writer-director Michael Almereyda, Hawke shines light on the Serbian immigrant’s many theories and inventions.

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