VIDEO : Sundance: Ethan Hawke Owes 'Dead Poets Society' Role to a Sony Walkman

Ethan Hawke owes his breakout performance in Dead Poets Society to a piece of 1980s technology and music icon Elvis Costello. Hawke says, "You know when you're going in before an audition and you're just sitting in a room with all these other chumps? I was trying to zone them out and I had a walkman, "It was probably 1988 and all I did was blast 'My Aim is True' by Elvis Costello. Before my screen test for Dead Poets Society."