For Paul Walter Hauser, playing the title character in Clint Eastwood's true-life drama Richard Jewell represented a rare opportunity. "I’ve never headlined a film before," Hauser, known for his character work in I, Tonya and BlacKkKlansman, said at Deadline's recent The Contenders New York event. "I’m usually the guy…
“Most overnight successes take about 10 years," says Paul Walter Hauser as he sits down for one of his first major interviews after the film that has put his name on lips all over Hollywood, Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell, has screened for the first time. "That's what they say. You have to get that kind of mileage…
At 89, Clint Eastwood might be one of the oldest directors ever to make a major studio movie, much less one that already has made the AFI and National Board of Review Top 10 lists for 2019. But that is the case for this remarkably durable actor, producer and director who even writes the music score for most of his…
If it is an awards season, the name Clint Eastwood can’t be too far away. And so it is yet again as another Eastwood movie has just thrown its hat in the ring. Richard Jewellhad a rousing AFI Fest premiere Wednesday night at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, as well as a SAG Nominating Committee screening at…
For the record, here’s what a real media witch hunt looks like. The trailer for Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell efficiently recaps the true-life story of a man whose life was ruined when law enforcement – and the press – got its story wrong and blamed an innocent man for a heinous crime.
Jewell, of course, was the…
Paul Walter Hauser has landed the title role in Clint Eastwood’s Warner Bros. movie Richard Jewell.
Hauser will play the security guard whose life was turned upside down after it was leaked by law enforcement to a reporter that Jewell was a possible suspect in the Olympic Park bombing during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics…
EXCLUSIVE: Paul Walter Hauser (I, Tonya), Katie Aselton (Legion) and Lexi Rabe (Avengers: Endgame) have joined Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Alexandra Shipp and Cole Sprouse in true crime feature Silk Road.
Tiller Russell (Operation Odessa) has written and is directing the project about criminal mastermind Ross…
EXCLUSIVE: Paul Walter Hauser is the latest actor to join Spike Lee’s forthcoming Netflix film Da 5 Bloods. This marks a reunion between the two as Hauser appeared in Lee’s Oscar-winning BlaKkKlansman. Da 5 Bloods is about a group of vets who attempt to put their broken selves back together in a story about the…
Paul Walter Hauser (Kingdom) is set for a key recurring role on the upcoming second season of YouTube Premium’s Karate Kid sequel Cobra Kai.
In the critically praised dramedy Cobra Kai, from Sony Pictures Television and Overbrook Entertainment, Ralph Macchio and William Zabka reprise their roles from the Karate Kid…
James Tupper (Big Little Lies) has been tapped as a male lead opposite Katie Holmes in Fox's FBI drama pilot from former Empire showrunner Ilene Chaiken and Melissa Scrivner Love. Paul Walter Hauser (I, Tonya) also has been cast in a series regular role in the project, produced by 20th Century Fox TV.
Written by…
EXCLUSIVE: Paul Walter Hauser has booked a role in Spike Lee’sBlack Klansman, adapted by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Lee and Kevin Willmont from the autobiography of Colorado Springs detective Ron Stallworth. Hauser joins Adam Driver, John David Washington, and Topher Grace in the film, which Lee is producing…
EXCLUSIVE: Paul Walter Hauser has been added to the cast of the upcoming Craig Gillespie-directed biopic I, Tonya, that stars Margot Robbie as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding. Miramax recently acquired the distribution rights to the film, which was written by Steven Rogers, with production scheduled to begin…
