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"FacebookPinterestFacebookPinterest\n\nJacket (left) by Tommy Hilfiger. Sweater (center) by ATM at Barneys New York. Shirt (right) by J.Crew. Tie Alexander Olch.\n\nI was sitting behind a married couple when I saw Before Midnight\u2014the Richard Linklater movie that masterfully continues an unlikely, possibly unprecedented, walking-and-talking-in-European-cities trilogy starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy\u2014and when it ended, the woman stood up, yelled something at her husband, and stormed out, a lot of mascara smeared to the corners of her face. This isn't to say Don't watch this movie with your wife/girlfriend. You should watch this movie with your wife/girlfriend! It's just that Before Midnight has a particularly large psychic blast radius, because it's about what happens after the couple wind up together. And stay together for eight more years. Romantic love! It gets worse.\n\nFortunately, there are few pleasures greater than watching Delpy and Hawke flirt, bicker, and philosophize on-screen in Linklater's movies. Get the three of them together in the real world and it's as if the talking has never stopped. So let's join this conversation already in progress.\n\n\u00B7\u00B7\u00B7\n\n Ethan Hawke: There's something very earnest about the first two movies. They're very sincere.\n\n Julie Delpy: Yeah, [Hawke's character, Jesse] is showing me his nice feathers in the beginning, you know?\n\n Richard Linklater: When you're trying to get laid, everything's great, but once you've been with someone eight years and the future is not finite, you have time to sit and really examine every little thing that irritates you.\n\n JD: I think it's good that Before Midnight acknowledges that maybe he cheated, and maybe she cheated, too. I think our society is so much about fidelity being this thing that's sacred, and people are miserable. They're suicidal. It brings more depression than anything else on earth, probably. Sorry to say that, guys.\n\n RL: Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters...\n\nGQ: You began working on the first movie in this series twenty years ago. How do each of you think the others have changed?\n\n EH: The biggest difference I would say about you, Julie, number one, is just being a mother.\n\n RL: Yeah. And the wine.\n\n EH: Yes, there's your relationship to alcohol.\n\n RL: She was more fun then, but a little more\u2014\n\n JD: A little more dangerous!\n\n RL: A little more volatile.\n\n EH: What's weird is I almost don't feel I've changed.\n\n JD: No, I remember the first film, he was very cocky.\n\n EH: You were just easily threatened.\n\n JD: No, you were an ass.\n\n RL: Cocky? No, enthusiastic!\n\n JD: Really? I wanted to slap him around the whole film.\n\n EH: You were so attracted to me!\n\n JD: I don't think Rick has changed that much, has he?\n\n EH: Rick is the same.\n\n GQ: The long fight in the hotel room: Are we supposed to pick a side in that?\n\n EH: It's funny, it's so obvious that relationships aren't a competition, and yet we\u2014\n\n JD: \u2014pick right or wrong. People can't help it.\n\n EH: Somehow we make everything a competition.\n\n RL: But Jesse and Celine are both kind of master manipulators, so that fight scene: They're kind of\u2014it's Ali-Frazier, you know?\n\n GQ: Did you transfer your real-life experiences into that scene?\n\n JD: I think anyone who has had a fight and who's a very good observer of the situation and people's behavior is capable of writing a fight. But you do start thinking about writing during the fights that you have with your partner.\n\n RL: \"I can use that. That works.\"\n\n EH: \"What did you say again? No, you phrased it differently.\"\n\n RL: If I ever get questioned [by my wife] about something in the movie, I just say, \"That was Ethan.\"\n\n JD: We're all cowards, really. We're all cowards.\n\n EH: It's the great thing about having co-writers.\n\n RL: Plausible deniability abounds.\n\n GQ: Celine is topless during part of the big blowup. Do married people really have fights with their privates dangling?\n\n EH: Well, I sure have.\n\n JD: Oh, and it was a common decision. I mean, I showed them my breasts first.\n\n RL: We've seen Julie's breasts so much over the last nineteen years. Julie's been trying to get her breasts in these movies for years.\n\n JD: And I said, \"This is the last chance I got!\" It's downhill from then on.\n\n RL: If Julie felt uncomfortable, we wouldn't have done it.\n\n JD: Some people say, \"Oh, don't you feel exploited?\" I'm, like, \"You can't exploit me!\" I'm, like, the least exploitable person. Also, it's kind of a \"Fuck you,\" you know, to [Jesse]. It's very strong when you're fighting with someone who's comfortable with herself.\n\n EH: We didn't want to do one of those phony romantic-comedy love scenes where she has\u2014\n\n JD: \u2014a bra. And I guess it could be exploitative if I was like 26. But you know, I'm, like, a normal person; I don't ercise.\n\n EH: I don't think you're a normal person.\n\n JD: I'm not anorexic, you know what I mean? It was so hot in that room. Usually they look much better."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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