Maya Hawke claims some movies get made based on the number of Instagram followers of their actors
Maya Hawke has claimed that certain movies only get made if its cast reaches a certain “amount of collective followers” on Instagram.
On a recent episode of podcast Happy Sad Confused, Hawke spoke about how certain films get the greenlight from producers, based on her conversations with “smart directors”.
“I don’t care about Instagram. Instagram sucks. Right, well just so you know, if you have over this many followers you can get the movie funded,” Hawke said on the podcast. “It’s a really confusing line to walk.”
Hawke, who is the daughter of actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, added that she has floated the idea of “deleting my Instagram” with some directors, with one of them telling her: “Just so you know, when I’m casting a movie with some producers, they hand me a sheet with the amount of collective followers I have to get from the cast.”
“So if you delete your Instagram and I lose those followers, understand these are the kinds of people I need to cast around you.” Watch the podcast episode below (skip to 29:28 for the quoted segment).
Last December, Hawke wrapped filming for the final season of Stranger Things, which will be out sometime this year.
Aside from film and TV, Hawke has also been busy as a musician, having released her third album ‘Chaos Angel’ last May, with a companion EP ‘Clipped Wings’ issued a few months later.
Hawke is set to tour across the US, UK and Europe from March onwards. See the full list of tour dates below and buy tickets here.
Maya Hawke’s 2025 tour dates are:
MARCH
10 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo
12 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
14 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
18 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
21 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Union Event Center
22 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
24 – St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
25 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
27 – Toronto, ON – History
28 – Montreal, QC – MTELUS
29 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner
APRIL
02 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
04 – Washington, DC – The Anthem
05 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
06 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
JUNE
21 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega
23 – Stockholm, Sweden – Fryshuset Klubben
24 – Oslo, Norway – Sentrum Scene
26 – Hamburg, Germany – Docks
27 – Berlin, Germany – Huxleys Neue Welt
29 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
30 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
JULY
01 — Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique
02 – Paris, France – Bataclan
04 – Cologne, Germany – Carlswerk Victoria
05 – Zurich, Switzerland – X-TRA
06 – Milan, Italy – Circolo Magnolia
08 – Barcelona, Spain – Razzmatazz 2
13 – Bristol, UK – O2 Academy Bristol
14 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Institute Birmingham
16 – London, UK – O2 Forum Kentish Town
19 – Manchester, UK – Albert Hall
20 – Newcastle, UK – NX Newcastle
21 – Glasgow, UK – SWG3 Galvanizers
23 – Dublin, Ireland – The National Stadium
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Daniel Peters
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