Ethan Hawke has hinted that his marriage to Uma Thurman ended because he couldn’t handle her Kill Bill success.

He said recently: “It’s unfair when one person’s career is taking off and the other is really suffering.”

“What happens - it’s not that they’re jealous of each other; it’s that the person you share your life with isn’t in the mood to support. You want to have a pity party for yourself, but they’re off to the Golden Globes and you don’t want to go because everyone is going to think you are jealous.”

“There’s a certain geometry to life - that life has a certain math equation to it and if you’re never together, you can’t build a home.”

“Joanne Woodward put her career on the back burner for that marriage [to Paul Newman] to last. And something’s got to give.”

Ethan and Uma married in 1998 and had two children together before divorcing in 2004.