Priest feels ‘seeds’ of faith ‘were planted’ during filming of Flannery O’Connor movie September 13, 2023By Ruby Thomas OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews “Wildcat” — directed by actor Ethan Hawke and starring his daughter Maya Hawke — takes a look at the life of Catholic author Flannery O’Connor as she tried to publish her first book in the 1950s.