Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman

The pair – who were married from 1998 to 2003 – met when they were making the dystopian sci-fi film Gattaca but Hawke explained that the "imaginative intimacy" can be both "dangerous and thrilling".

He told GQ Hype: "Have you ever played Spin the Bottle? There’s a certain intimacy to the work that we do. Imaginative intimacy. It’s such a high. It feels dangerous and thrilling. It turns the temperature up in your life. It can be like falling in love at summer camp. It doesn’t have any connection to the dailiness of real life. That’s the danger of it."