Ethan Hawke on ‘Juliet, Naked’ role: ‘For an actor, I’m not a bad singer’

Ethan Hawke, Rose Byrne, Chris O’Dowd are in the film “Juliet, Naked.” So how naked is Juliet?

Hawke: “Please. ‘Juliet’ is a song. I play old-time rocker Tucker Crowe, whose 25-year-old song suddenly surfaces, is a big hit and I sing it.”

So what’s he know about singing?

“Nothing. What do I have to know? I do what I have to do. The role says sing, so I sing. I do that sometimes.

I’ve sung for my family. I can do a little, and I didn’t take any lessons. An actor singing is different from a singer singing. Singing is communication.

“Also, don’t ask about my clinkers. What you lack in technical skill you make up in passion. You fake it. For an actor, I’m not a bad singer.”

The moviegoing crowd included shloompy short-sleeve tees hanging out of mens’ pants. Ethan’s tailored blue suit — nifty. So how did he think he looked on-screen?

“I only saw this film once, but I’m always aware of the alternative. In other words, if you don’t get older you’re dead. And I like being alive.”

The story deals with Byrne’s character in a relationship with actor O’Dowd’s character who’s a fan of Ethan’s Crowe character — and for the rest, go see the movie.

Byrne’s ankle-length drop-dead-gorgeous multicolor embroidered Dior gown clearly wasn’t laying around her closet.

She keeping it?

She just laughed, then: “Please. They gave me two fittings.” The screening’s crush of invitees was so loud we couldn’t hear one another so this movie star wearing this $20,000 — give or take a franc — gown was shouting at me: “We filmed in London. Being Australian, I loved the atmosphere. I have friends there, and I appreciated the British tone. A great scene’s in a seaside town, where Chris O’Dowd’s furious character storms off the beach.”

To explain the scene, Rose had to shout. This didn’t work — so go to a theater and see the movie.

O’Dowd: “I play a music obsessive involved with Rose. He then meets his hero Tucker who then runs off with Rose . . .” At this moment, a chocolate pretzel commanded Chris’ attention as did his nifty suede boots, which he couldn’t tug off to show me — so what he said was, “S - - t.”

Next, “I’m from Ireland. Home is California. But now I live in London, and I got these at Topshop.”

Listen, as I said, if you’d like to know more about “Juliet, Naked,” the movie’s in theaters on Friday.

Who’s on the bench?

NYC actor Robert Galinsky, whose solo show “The Bench” (presented by Chris Noth and Barry Shabaka Henley) goes up in Los Angeles in the fall, saw actor Corbin Bernsen, whom you may remember from “LA Law,” at Lower East Side speakeasy the Roost. Corbin on working in LA: “Get in and out fast as you can.” With a show up for a streaming deal, he added: “And better it should shoot in New York!”

Lost somewhere in translation

Gary Rosen, a p.r. man schlepping around Scotland, asked the waiter in this fine establishment if that was Anthony Hopkins he thinks he saw at the bar.

Puzzled by the Noo Yawk accent, the waiter responds, “Another Nopkin, sir?”

Only in Pitlochry, kids, only in Pitlochry.

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