“The character I played - well, the role reminded me of my relationship with my own dad,” Hawkins says. The two casually chatted for a couple of hours before Hawkins scored the part. He's thankful to Linklater, the prolific director and a fellow Texan, for the dreamlike opportunity. Hawkins portrayed the second of three stepfathers, a drunken and damaged military man. It told the tale of a boy’s journey from childhood to adulthood, and Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke played his biological parents.
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Then he scored the role of a lifetime in the film Boyhood, a winner of six Academy Awards and the most talked-about movie that year. “I love the hospitality business," Hawkins says. He secured one as “VIP frontman” at the Ghost Bar, a swanky Las Vegas-born nightclub overlooking Victory Park. When stardom dimmed in the mid-2000s, Hawkins moved back to Dallas. In 1998, he recorded the hit country song “We Lose.” He moved to Nashville and landed a major record deal that sent him touring with artists such as the Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw. His acting career wasn’t exactly exploding, however, so he wholeheartedly chased another dream - making music. Hawkins later procured acting and voiceover parts and landed a lead role in the miniseries Shake, Rattle and Roll on CBS.
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A representative from the talent and modeling Kim Dawson Agency approached him and put him in the limelight, a place he found comforting and exciting.Ī few years later, he packed into his car the few things he owned and move to Los Angeles, where luck remained on his side. He surfed a few couches but hastily earned a starring role as the white Power Ranger in the 1990s live-action superhero TV series. For example, a gym owner named Dennis Sheldon gave Hawkins his first job before fortune finally struck. He had good people in his life who saved him, he says. “I could spiral, go down a negative path, but I did not want to be them," he says. "My dad was alcoholic.”Īt that point, Hawkins says, “I was at a crossroads.” “But she was essentially my only parent when I lost her," he says. He knew she was sick, he says, and he quickly learned how deep the roots of depression can go. When he was 14 years old, before he enrolled in high school in Plano, his mother, who had clinical depression, killed herself. The '80s-tinged sushi restaurant seems like less of a stretch if you know of Hawkins' other endeavor, an '80s pop tribute band called Awesome Sauce.ĭespite Hawkins' many successes, the 42-year-old Dallas native encountered tragedy at a young age. His latest venture: the recently premiered Sushi Marquee in Frisco. Suburban Dallas diners perhaps have encountered him at restaurants in which he’s invested, where he might distribute a round of drinks and spare a moment for small talk. Contemporary country music fans have heard his once-ubiquitous romantic ballad, one of those embedded in soft-lit video and played on CMT. Thirty-somethings might recall him as the white Power Ranger.
He portrays a flawed, heavy-drinking, war-veteran stepfather in Richard Linklater’s pioneering and buzz-generating Boyhood, the Academy Awards best picture nominee narrowly vanquished by Birdman in 2015.
Your generation and entertainment penchants likely determine how you know the name Brad Hawkins, but odds are you’ve seen his face or heard his voice.
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