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SUNDANCE Q&A: John Hawkes Praises Vera Farmiga for Directing with ‘Grace and Skill’
TheHollywoodReporter.com, 1/23/11
Hawkes muses about life after Winter’s Bone, being labeled a “character actor” and how hitchhiking was great training for his craft.

THR: You’ve been very busy since Winter’s Bone first premiered at Sundance a year ago. You just wrapped another film, this one in Texas?

John Hawkes: Yes, it’s called The Playroom. It’s a very independent film. Molly Parker, a dear friend from Deadwood, and I play husband and wife, but it’s more of a story of our four children set in 1975. Then I’m going to work with Steven Soderbergh to finish up something that I started with him, Contagion. Read the full interview>>

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John Hawkes bags two new roles in CHRONICLE and THE PLAYROOM
GordanandtheWhale.com, 1/14/11
GATW is a John Hawkes-lovin’ bunch, and we are always excited when he is put into a new role. He’s not a household name actor, an unfortunate shame because he absolutely deserves to be. Instead, he is often considered an indie film darling of sorts.

Luckily for us, Hawkes talent has been recognized and he will be taking up two new roles in two new films titled CHRONICLE and THE PLAYROOM.

THE PLAYROOM . . . seems like a very interesting plot, hopefully providing a meaty role for Hawkes, who will be re-joining his Deadwood co-star Molly Parker.  Read the full article>>

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John Hawkes Books Roles in ‘Chronicle’ and ‘The Playroom’
Slashfilm.com, 1/13/11
Anything that puts John Hawkes in more movies is OK by me. And the great, until recently underrated actor has just bagged two new roles, so here’s a pair of films to put on your watch list. . . . The Playroom, in which the actor reunites with his Deadwood co-star Molly Parker.

Between these two films, The Playroom is the one I’m really psyched for. Because I like Molly Parker just as much as I do Mr. Hawkes, and because the plot sounds just a bit unhinged. Read the full article>>

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Late Bloomer: At Long Last, Director Julia Dyer Is Making Sister’s Screenplay, Set in 1975 Dallas
The Dallas Observer blog, 1/12/11
I just had the pleasure of re-reading Jimmy Fowler’s 1997 feature on Gretchen and Julia Dyer, who, long, long ago, took their movie Late Bloomers to Sundance, where it garnered raves and, finally, national distribution. I was reminded of it after reading a piece in Variety about The Playroom, which Julia is directing and brother Stephen is producing.  Read the full article>>

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John Hawkes & Molly Parker Star In Indie Drama ‘The Playroom’
Indiewire.com blog The Playlist, 1/12/11
Shooting has already begun in Dallas, Texas, on “The Playroom,” an independent drama about a dysfunctional family. Veteran Canadian actress Molly Parker and “Winter’s Bone” star John Hawkes—who also appeared together in “Deadwood”—will star as the parents of four children in the ’70s including their volatile teenage daughter (Olivia Harris) who “acts as a surrogate mother to the younger children, who have created a make-believe world in their attic hideaway while the parents act out a sordid story below.”  Read the full article>>

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Casting Watch: Theron vs. Rapace For Alien, Hobbit Reunites Cast, Hawkes and Parker for Indie Drama
Indiewire.com blog Thompson on Hollywood, 1/11/11
In indie casting news, The Playroom, a collaboration between siblings Gretchen (writer), Julia (director) and Stephen (producer) Dyer, has cast John Hawkes and Molly Parker. The pair, who’ve worked together on HBO’s Deadwood, will play the parents of four in the 1975 Dallas suburbs. Olivia Harris is their daughter, who raises the younger children in a attic make-believe world to escape their parent’s shameful existence below. The Dyers’ first film, comedy Late Bloomers, premiered at Sundance in 1996 in competition. Read the full article>>

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Parker, Hawkes ready for ‘Playroom’: Julia Dyer directs indie drama about troubled family
Variety.com, 1/11/11
Molly Parker and John Hawkes (“Winter’s Bone”) have been signed to star in indie drama “The Playroom,” written by Gretchen Dyer and directed by her sister Julia Dyer.  “The Playroom” is produced by Stephen Dyer (“Hysteria”) and Angie Meyer of Ten96 Films. Shooting’s under way in Dallas.  Read the full article>>>