There are a few things Maya Hawke can't live without. From a vintage striped shirt and some candy to watercolor paints and a sleep mask, here are Maya's essentials.Maya's album, Chaos Angel, releases May 31. https://mayahawke.lnk.to/ChaosAngelWildcat, the movie about Flannery O'Connor, starring and executive produced by Maya is now playing.https://wildcat.oscilloscope.net/Maya also stars in Inside Out 2, out June 14. https://movies.disney.com/inside-out-2Director: Camille RamosDirector of Photography: Jack BelisleEditor: Paul TaelTalent: Maya HawkeProducer: Camille RamosLine Producer: Jen SantosProduction Manager: James PipitoneProduction Coordinator: Elizabeth HymesTalent Booker: Paige Garbarini; Ernesto MaciasCamera Operator: Chloe RamosGaffer: David DjacoSound Recordist: Rachel SuffianProduction Assistants: Erica Palmieri; Ziyne AbdoPost Production Supervisor: Rachael KnightPost Production Coordinator: Ian BryantSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAssistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow
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00:00 Hi, I'm Maya Hawke and these are my 10 essentials.
00:03 This is my guitar. This is the first guitar that I bought for myself.
00:17 And I bought it with the cash that I made from a tour I did of Blue Notes in Japan.
00:22 Basically the first tour I ever went on.
00:24 We played two shows a night for a week, I think.
00:27 It was insane. It was one of the best learning experiences I've ever had in my life.
00:32 I think when I first started playing shows, I was really like doing this kind of drunk Disney princess personality on stage.
00:39 I was like laughing and smiling a lot and like kind of making fun of myself and doing like, "Oh, whoops!"
00:44 Like, "Oh, I don't know guys. Thank you so much for coming out."
00:48 And having to do it twice in one night, I just learned to hate it.
00:53 It was a really transformative set of shows for me.
00:57 I then got on the plane, flew back, I went to LA and I had cash in my wallet from that trip.
01:03 And I went and bought this guitar.
01:04 Somebody other than me carved the word "Butch" into the corner.
01:08 So that's her name. Her name is Butch.
01:10 This is a problem that came from crafty on set for the most part.
01:17 It's like when you're working a late night shoot, it's just hard not to want to eat candy.
01:21 On Stranger Things, they carry these particular candies for me.
01:25 These are my favorite candies, the Now and Laters and the Smarties.
01:29 I really like sour candy, but I don't know if anyone is familiar with this.
01:32 Most sour candy, like Sour Patch Kids, sour watermelons, sour ropes, sour straws, sour sketty.
01:39 These kinds of candies, they have a delicious but tongue-destroying sort of umami powder.
01:47 And if you like to eat an inappropriate amount of candy, you can end up with like a bleeding...
01:54 This is disgusting what I'm saying, but like a bleeding mouth or like a very sore mouth.
01:57 So the Smarties and the Now and Laters achieve the goal of sourness without injuring the mouth.
02:04 I have a large collection of striped shirts.
02:09 Most of them are vintage, but this is a perfect black and white striped shirt.
02:15 It is maybe the most important thing to me clothing-wise.
02:19 It's been that way for a long time in my life. I'm committing.
02:22 I feel like that's the thing of getting older is you start to like realize the things about yourself
02:27 that like the phases you want to stay in.
02:29 And I feel like I'm committing to the striped shirt in my life.
02:32 It's a very happy marriage.
02:33 This is a bra. It is a perfect bra.
02:40 When you're working in this industry, you often have to go and put on clothes that are not your clothes.
02:44 And like if it's a photo shoot, there's like a rack of clothes and you try them on and you're making it work.
02:48 But people often forget to bring clothes that work for women with boobs or bras for women with boobs.
02:55 So I've learned that you must bring your own.
02:58 And I found that this is the perfect bra.
03:00 It is also unfortunately generally out of stock.
03:03 I got it from this underwear store that was in Woodstock, New York.
03:07 I think, I don't know, eight years ago.
03:10 That store is now closed. This brand, you can only buy them on like resale, like used.
03:16 This one I got fresh. It's perfect. It's supportive.
03:20 It gives you differentiation and shape.
03:23 It has no underwire, but it doesn't make that kind of uniboob effect or the triangle effect that other bras have that have no underwire.
03:29 It's just a perfect bra.
03:31 I wasn't like a special blanket kid, but I became a special blanket adult.
03:38 I always have a scarf. It can double as a sleep mask and it can double as like a hood.
03:43 Sometimes I will kind of just like have it drapey.
03:47 You can make it nighttime really easily if you need to take a nap.
03:50 You know, it's really good to have on set where you can do emergency naps.
03:54 But then I'll also do like a whole hood thing.
03:57 Let me see. I haven't done it in a while.
04:00 No, this is backwards.
04:02 Have to start forward, then go around, pull up into kind of a little like hoodie guy.
04:10 And then you got your ears warmed too.
04:12 And then you can kind of wrap it there.
04:14 I probably look silly. I normally do it in a mirror.
04:16 As you can tell by the fact that I showed like a comfort scarf and a PJ set and a sleep mask, I'm very bedtime oriented.
04:27 So this sleep mask changed my life and I'm now a full addict.
04:31 It has these detachable eye cups.
04:33 I'll detach one just to sort of, this is now a tutorial.
04:36 They make complete darkness without having actual pressure on your eyes, which I really like.
04:40 And, you know, sleep masks usually slip off at night.
04:43 This has a Velcro strap that you can tighten.
04:46 You know, I keep putting things on my head, people are going to kill me.
04:48 But you can tighten properly around the back so that it doesn't come off at night.
04:52 And now I'm like fully addicted to sleeping in this thing.
04:56 Like if I don't have it, I'll like tie something around my head.
05:00 I don't know, there's something magical about having something tight wrapped around your head and your eyes.
05:04 It makes me just go like, okay, it's bedtime.
05:07 So really, if I was going to bring like my whole skincare routine here, it would be pretty useless to anyone.
05:16 Because I realized that instead of like spending way too much money on trying different products that were recommended to me to help with my acne,
05:23 I should just go see a dermatologist.
05:25 So I did. So if I showed you my skincare routine, it would be some pills and some medical creams,
05:31 all of which you couldn't buy without seeing a doctor.
05:33 But one thing that I try to always keep in my purse with me is just vitamin E oil.
05:37 I buy it at Whole Foods. It's like amazing for cuticles.
05:41 It's an amazing like kind of shiny lip gloss.
05:45 I put it on when I have like an acne scar that's healing.
05:48 It does have this kind of shininess effect.
05:50 If you put it on, you kind of get a little glimmer, which is either a positive or a negative, depending on your relationship to being shiny on that day.
05:57 And then this is a sunscreen, concealer, foundation, moisturizer, like all in one.
06:04 It's like 50 SPF. Very important. I try to wear sunscreen every day.
06:08 And it also just like really evens out your skin tone.
06:13 My family isn't overly beauty focused, but everything I know I learned from my mom.
06:18 Vitamin E oil.
06:20 These are a cure to my attention issues.
06:26 I love to watercolor. I've watercolored since I was a little kid.
06:30 I love this brand of watercolor. It's beautiful. Comes in a beautiful case.
06:35 The colors are really bright. I personalized this miniature set.
06:39 My real set is like twice the size of this. And then there's two layers.
06:44 Then I bring a watercolor book in here.
06:48 Mostly I do like weird, imaginary color paintings while I'm just like doing other stuff to try to calm my brain.
06:54 This is the original version of this card that I sent out to announce this record, "Chaos Angel," that I'm promoting right now.
07:00 And here's the real version.
07:02 And then I bring this with me, which is just so many brushes.
07:07 Oh, and apparently a flosser, which I also could have considered an exceptional item.
07:13 I always try to carry a book with me in my bag.
07:17 Mostly it is an aspirational goal.
07:19 I've done this since I was a kid.
07:20 Like I used to go on trips and I would pack like 20 books in my bag.
07:24 I've now usually narrowed it down to one.
07:26 I wouldn't read any of them, but I would like how it made me feel to put them on my side table or to like have them spilling out of my backpack.
07:34 I feel like it would make me seem really smart and thoughtful and busy and I could hide in them from people.
07:41 Now sometimes I hide my phone on a page and look at it while I look like I'm reading.
07:46 But I also read, I have read this book.
07:48 This is "Tangle Wreck" by Jeanette Winterson.
07:50 And this is a notebook.
07:51 I always have a notebook with me.
07:53 I like tuck Polaroids into them like that.
07:58 And I just always like to have it with me so I have a place to write things down and be creative.
08:03 I am terrified of colds.
08:10 I almost just brought in 10 vitamins for my 10 essential things.
08:14 I almost feel like I'd rather have like the bubonic plague than a cold.
08:18 The things I really try to travel with are Southern Banglan Jen.
08:22 I'm sure that that's not how you really say it, but it's how I read it.
08:24 It was recommended to me by an acupuncturist when I had gone through a period of like completely losing my voice for a long time.
08:31 I was trying to get my voice back and they were like, drink this all day.
08:36 I think it's like kind of like a wonder drink.
08:38 And it's really sweet and I like how it tastes and it's a yummy dessert drink.
08:43 And then there are these horrible, disgusting things that I love.
08:46 The lipsomal vitamin C and lipsomal glutathione.
08:49 I think I still have nodules.
08:51 I did for a while in a way that was debilitating and I've gotten them under control.
08:54 And one of the ways that I did that was with glutathione.
08:57 And then there's lipsomal vitamin C, which I think most people know about and have.
09:00 Also disgusting, though not as disgusting as the glutathione.
09:07 Thank you so much for watching.
09:08 I hope you found something that was useful.
09:11 And please listen to my new album, Chaos Angel.
09:15 Angel.