28.
In
an
interview,
Williams
revealed
Dead
Poets
Society
was
one
of
his
favorite
movies
he
ever
appeared
in.
“There
was
something
in
that
movie
that
effected
people
beyond
just
a
movie,”
he said. “I
met
a
guy
who
said, ‘Mr.
Williams,
I
saw
the
movie
Dead
Poets
and
I
used
to
work
for
a
major
corporation,
I
took
off
my
business
suit,
I
burned
it
and
now
I
own
an
art
gallery.’
I
went, ‘I
have
to
buy
a
lot
of
art
from
you
now!'”
In
a
Reddit
AMA,
he
revealed
Weir
was
one
of
his
favorite
directors
he’d
ever
worked
with.
For
Weir,
in
a
1990
interview,
he
said
he
knew
the
comedic
actor
could
play
the “quieter,
more
thoughtful”
Keating
because
he “had
met
that
quieter,
more
thoughtful
and
funny
man”
when
he
first
met
Williams.
29.
After
Williams’
tragic
death
in
19,
the
words “O
Captain,
my
Captain”
took
on
a
whole
new
meaning,
with
many
tributes
using
the
infamous
Dead
Poets
Society
line
to
pay
homage
to
the
actor.
But
it
especially
took
on
new
meaning
for
Hawke,
who
said
the
line
that
had
so
often
been
repeated
back
to
him
by
fans
over
the
years.
“When
he
died,
I
read
that
whole
poem
and
it’s
kind
of
devastating,”
he told
Vanity
Fair
of
the
Walt
Whitman
poem.
30.
When
filming
first
began,
Hawke
believed
Williams
didn’t
like
him,
as
he
was
trying
to
stay
in
character,
much
to
the
improv-loving
actor’s
chagrin. “The
more
I
didn’t
laugh,
the
more
insane
he
got,”
Hawke
recalled. “So
I
thought
he
hated
me
because
he
would
constantly
lay
into
me.”
Of
course,
he
didn’t,
with
Hawke
receiving
a
phone
call
from
Williams’
agent
after
the
movie
that
would
change
his
career
forever.
“‘[Williams]
says
that
you’re
going
to
be
somebody
and
that
I
should
sign
you,'”
he
recalled. “He
got
my
my
first
agent
and
he’s
still
my
agent
now.”
Celebrity Fails
