Ethan Hawke Remembers “Before Sunrise”'s World Premiere with Julie Delpy 30 Years Ago: 'Great Night'

Ethan Hawke is throwing it back to Before Sunrise!

Hawke, 54, shared three images of him, filmmaker Richard Linklater and actress Julie Delpy to Instagram on Monday, Jan. 27 as he recalled in a caption that Before Sunrise premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 30 years ago in 1995. Hawke's post featured an image of him, Delpy, now 55, and Linklater, now 64, on the movie's set and at its world premiere in Utah.

"This time 30 years ago our movie Before Sunrise debuted at Sundance. Redford himself introduced it," Hawke wrote in caption, referencing actor and Sundance founder Robert Redford. "Great night."

Before Sunrise marked Linklater's fourth film as a director. The movie follows American 20-something Jesse (Hawke) and a young French woman named Céline (Delpy), who meet on a train in Europe and impulsively decide to spend one night together roaming Vienna before Jesse flies back to the United States.

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Many Instagram users left comments on Hawke's post celebrating the film's 30th anniversary by noting their love for Before Sunrise, including Topher Grace. "Best trilogy of all time," Grace, 46, wrote in a comment, referencing Before Sunrise's two sequels, 2004's Before Sunset and 2013's Before Midnight.

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The Before trilogy meets Hawke and Delpy's characters several years apart in each installment. In Before Sunset, Jesse and Céline encounter one another again by chance in Paris, where they spend an afternoon together and muse on their decision not to reconnect after their original meeting in Vienna. Before Midnight meets Jesse and Céline after they have been in a relationship and started a family together as they wrangle with the realities of a long-term partnership and their own career paths.

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Delpy, Hawke and Linklater have considered continuing the romance series beyond Before Midnight, but Delpy most recently stated in 2021 that the group had agreed they did not have a pitch for a fourth installment that they were creatively satisfied with.

“What happened was that we — all three of us — agreed that we couldn’t come up with something good for a fourth one. It’s that simple. We didn’t fight. We’re not on bad terms. Everyone’s happy… It’s so much drama for nothing," she told Variety at that time, after reports suggested Delpy had declined to participate in a fourth Before movie. "We just didn’t come up with a good idea.”

While Delpy clarified that she, Hawke and Linklater had discussed ideas for a new installment, she described the conversations as "basically an idea that none of us liked. That was the end of it. It was half of a bad idea that went around and we were like, ‘Let’s not do it.’ ”

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