Ethan Hawke is opening up about his daughter Maya Hawke’s surprise Valentine’s Day wedding to singer-songwriter Christian Lee Hutson.
“That was pretty fun,” Ethan, 55, told Entertainment Tonight on Thursday, April 23, at the Time 100 Gala in New York City.
“What really makes it is, you know, walking your daughter down the aisle. … I’ve had a lot of feelings in my life, and that was one I have no words for what that feels like,” the actor gushed. “I have no vocabulary for that. I felt like I was 13 experiencing life for the first time, you know?”
Ethan went on to praise Maya’s new husband.
Maya Hawke secretly said “I do” to Christian Lee Hutson on Valentine’s Day 2026 after nearly three years of dating. Hawke and Hutson wed in February 2026 in New York City, per photos obtained by multiple outlets. While the newlyweds never publicly confirmed their engagement, they were first romantically linked in 2023. “I cannot recommend […]
“The man she married is an amazing young man, Christian, so I’m a very lucky individual,” Ethan said.
Ethan shares Stranger Things actress Maya, 27, and son Levon, 24, with ex-wife Uma Thurman. He also shares daughters Clementine, 17, and Indiana, 14, with his current wife, Ryan Shawhughes.
Maya and Christian, 35, wed in a surprise New York City ceremony on February 14 attended by Maya’s parents and her Stranger Things costars, including Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer and Joe Keery.
In March, Maya addressed her nuptials for the first time at the premiere of her movie Wishful Thinking, calling married life “absolutely fantastic.”
“I’m a very, very lucky person who’s very happy right now,” Maya told People at the time. “And yeah, [I] couldn’t be more grateful.”
“I feel so lucky to have found my best friend and to have someone I can tell anything to,” the actress added to Page Six. “It makes something like getting married feel like, ‘Oh, of course,’ you know, not like, ‘What?’ And I’m very, very, very lucky, so I’m really happy.”
Maya told the outlet that she was “ecstatically happy” following her wedding. “I mean … love is the best,” she said.
Maya and Christian were first linked in 2023 and appeared to keep their engagement under wraps until their wedding day.
“I cannot recommend highly enough dating your friends. It’s the best,” Maya said of finding love with her spouse during a 2024 appearance on The Zach Sang Show. “They know you, and as a human being who has dated other people. They really know you as a person who has feelings … not just a piece of paper for them to project their image of [the] perfect girlfriend onto. It’s the best to feel seen in that way.”
