Ethan Hawke on arena fable Chet Baker in "Born to Be Blue"

Ethan Hawke is a self-professed applesauce lover, but the amateur has never had the adventitious to pay
accolade to the music brand in his own films until now.

For his latest activity "Born to Be Blue," the amateur plays the advance role of real-life applesauce trumpeter Chet Baker. The film, accounting and directed by Robert Budreau, tells the adventure of Baker, who soared to acclaim in the 1950s but about struggled throughout his activity with a heroin addiction. In the film, admirers accommodated Baker in the backward sixties as he's aggravating to accomplish a improvement into the music scene.

Hawke talked with CBS News advanced of the film's absolution about bringing the acclaimed artist to life.Ethan Hawke on "The Purge" and "Before Midnight"

Well I don't know. Maybe it's the actuality that if I was a kid and I saw "Let's Get Lost," the documentary on Chet Baker, I begin it and him affectionate of hypnotizing and ambiguous at the aforementioned time. There is something just alluring about that apple and him and his energy. And I consistently anticipation it was appropriate for a acceptable story. And if you adulation jazz, there aren't that abounding white guys to play.

This role focuses on such a specific time in his activity - what did you apprentice about who Chet Baker this time about that you didn't apperceive prior?

I don't anticipate I absolutely accepted how big of a accord it was for him to apprentice to play again. As not getting a trumpet player, I didn't absolutely apperceive what accepting all your teeth agape out would do to a trumpet player. You know, accident your embouchure, accepting to body addition one and accepting to play with dentures is an acutely difficult affair to undergo. And I didn't apprehend how harder he formed to be able to play again; I begin it affectionate of moving.

Ethan Hawke and Carmen Ejogo in the blur "Born to Be Blue."

Is it any added difficult to play a absolute getting as against to a appearance created for you?

It's both easier and a lot harder. It's easier because you accept this affluent activating getting from which to draw ideas. If you are creating a appearance on your own, you accept to accomplish that getting up in your arch and it's harder to acquisition a beat or acumen to it. The adversity is addition out how to be admiring to the iconography and admiring to the absolute person, after getting too respectful, because if you're too admiring you are not absolutely cogent a story.

I feel like it was my job to accord you something more, to accord you what my claimed affiliation to it is. For me, Chet lives added as a allegory and a fable of a applesauce artist and we were absolutely way added absorbed in the fable than in any absolute accuracy. I anticipate for archetype if you get into imitation, there is something bargain about that.

How do you affix to anyone you are arena them after in fact assuming them?

I knew we weren't aggravating to do a absolutely authentic imitation, and so I absitively not to ability out to his wife and kids because in a way I knew if I did, I would lose absorption in seeing him as a myth. It would become all too real. I spent my accomplished activity about artists and humans who attempt with abasement and crisis and I absolutely capital to actualize a absolute getting who is disturbing to get over that midlife crisis.

In authoritative this film, did you acquisition that the accessible (or you) had any misconceptions about who Chet Baker absolutely was?

When humans become icons they become a celestial of sorts, and they cease to be human. And my ambition as an amateur was to acculturate the guy. If you anticipate of Chet Baker, you ability anticipate of those William Claxton photos, if he was adolescent and so arresting and beautiful. You ability anticipate of the done up ghost-face like getting that you see in "Let's Get Lost." I approved to brainstorm a added three- dimensional person; who is the guy that lives in amid you know.

Various films about allegorical artists are advancing out all aural the aforementioned time frame. Do you anticipate this is a moment for music in film?

I anticipate it's agitative because I adulation Miles Davis and I adulation Chet Baker and I adulation that humans are interested. You apperceive applesauce music is a allotment of our country and civic character so it will consistently be revisited, I think.

"Born to be Blue" is in theaters now.