Ethan Hawke is playing all the angles

ETHAN Hawke is out and about in New York, the city he's lived in for 30 years, a place where famous faces slide past every day. He's wearing a baseball cap, a brown hoodie and a schlubby pair of cords. It's an outfit you may think he chose to look nondescript, but in reality it's because he likes corduroy trousers, though his stylist wishes to God he wouldn't wear them in public. Someone spots him and approaches timidly. The fan trembles: "Mr Dorff?" Hawke doesn't want to ruin their moment, so he gives a smile, shakes their hand. This has happened before - he gets mistaken for a lot of famous people: Christian Bale, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt. And, it seems, Stephen Dorff. "You start realising how...