Here's a preview of the Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward doc on HBO Max

Ethan Hawke isn’t just that actor from Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight” trilogy that made you cry on a weepy day — or from a lot of other movies, but particularly these. He’s also a director, and he’s releasing his second documentary on July 21: "The Last Movie Stars," a six-part series about one of Old Hollywood’s most famous couples, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

Basically, if history or Hollywood romances are up your alley, you’re going to want HBO Max and an alert set on your calendar. 

“The Last Movie Stars" explores the couple's ups and downs, careers, domestic life and relationships with the famous friends. The two actors met while filming “The Long, Hot Summer” in 1958 and had a 50-year marriage that ended with Newman’s death in 2008.

Hawke’s six-part project is based on taped interviews that Newman recorded with his friends when the actor was getting ready to write a memoir. For whatever reason, he wound up destroying the tapes and the hundreds of hours of conversations captured on them. However, he didn’t destroy the transcriptions—and those are exactly what this docuseries is based on. 

The series brings these transcriptions to life with a host of other famous folks: George Clooney voices Newman, and Laura Linney voices Woodward. Others in the Newton-Woodward orbit are voiced by Oscar Isaac, Billy Crudup, LaTanya Richard Jackson, Mark Ruffalo, Sam Rockwell, Sally Field and Zoe Kazan. 

You can watch the trailer below: 

A lot of big names are behind the film as well: Hamilton Leithaus, who you  might recognize as the former singer for the Walkmen, did the music, and Martin Scorcese is the executive producer. The Playlist has already called “The Last Movie Stars” a “revelatory deep dive into the life of two iconic stars.” If you’re into it—or any of HBO Max’s great new programming that’s dropped this summer—sign up for a free trial or a subscription so you don’t miss out when the series drops July 21.