Amid experiencing renewed attention due to his rare villain turn in Disney+’s latest Marvel series endeavor, Moon Knight, actor Ethan Hawke has taken his Academy Award-nominated talents to Suffolk County.
Last week, the actor was spotted on the set of the upcoming Netflix drama film, “Leave the World Behind,” in and around Wading River. According to the Riverhead News Review, filming locations on Thursday and Friday included: “between East Wind Drive and Hulse Landing Road” on Sound Avenue and “between Sound and Youngs Avenues’ ‘ on Twomey Avenue in Calverton. A publicly available contract, per the Town of Riverhead, also confirms scenes shot “on Horton Avenue between Reeves and Sound Avenues.”
The cast and crew, which also features multi-Oscar winner Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, Green Book), Kevin Bacon, and fellow gold statuette recipient, Julia Roberts – though Roberts reportedly has no scene commitments in-town – have notably convened at Lewin Farms and Splish Splash, among other local hubs.
Leave the World Behind is an adaptation of a “two families brought together over the course of one tension-filled weekend” 2020 novel written by Rumaan Alam. The film’s director, Sam Esmail, is the inventive, uniquely gifted mind behind USA’s critical darling cyberpunk drama, Mr. Robot (2015-2019). Aside from his focal societally fortuitous contribution to the binge generation, Esmail also delivered an instant (hyper)cult classic with his big-screen debut in 2014.
IFC’s criminally underseen Comet, through perfected abandon of chronology, includes tour de force performances from Justin Long and Shameless’ Emmy Rossum (Esmail’s real-life wife) as an on-again/off-again item grappling with the fallout that comes when the passion pit runneth dry.
Additionally, Esmail directed the first season of Amazon Prime’s Homecoming, a well-received anthology based on the popular podcast of the same name.
