Maya Hawke addresses her wedding pictures being leaked: 'Kind of happy' - Geo News

Maya Hawke never wanted her wedding pictures to run in the press, but she was strangely relieved when they did.

The Stranger Things star opened up about her Valentine’s Day wedding in a new interview with Cosmopolitan published on Monday, November 2, explaining why she opted out of running her wedding photos in the press like other celebrities.

“I’m not going to lie and be like, ‘I never for one second considered it.’ I genuinely thought about it,” she admitted. “But the only thing I’ve known that I wanted to do on my wedding day since I was a kid was walk with the whole wedding party.”

Hawke, 28, married musician Christian Lee Hutson, 35, in a surprise ceremony on February 14, 2026, in New York City. Their wedding party was photographed walking through the streets, with guests including Hawke’s parents, Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, and several of her co-stars.

According to Cosmopolitan, “only one lone paparazzo” managed to capture the procession, and the photographs were run in People magazine.

“And they were, to their credit, extremely noninvasive,” Hawke noted. “No one saw them. No one was upset by it. No one got hurt.”

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping actress also explained that the photos allowed her to showcase her custom Prada wedding dress without publicly drawing attention to herself.

“I had thought about doing a story about the dress,” she said. “I worked with Prada, so it felt like a way to honor them without having to go out in public and say, ‘Look at me.’”