Paul Walter Hauser on Playing Richard Jewell — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Applause]
2. 0:01that will be your rain song whenever you
3. 0:04come to this show think you will be
4. 0:06serenaded with that I I was hoping for
5. 0:09that or iris by the Goo Goo Dolls oh
6. 0:11yeah a little more personal buddy I've
7. 0:18been here before to do its show yeah not
8. 0:21not as a guest obviously you would
9. 0:22remember that but um yeah I thought I
10. 0:24said this is years ago meet my buddy
11. 0:26Scott Daly we sat like the second row
12. 0:28where you guys are right there yeah the
13. 0:31episode why I still remember it because
14. 0:33you're that good it was that Javier
15. 0:36Bardem and flava flav and Stone Sour Wow
16. 0:40Wow how do you forget my Flavor Flav
17. 0:42well obviously what year was this how
18. 0:45long ago I don't know this must've been
19. 0:46like 2013 what was how many children was
20. 0:50flavor up to at that time know what I
21. 0:52haven't kept count like I told them I
22. 0:54would you haven't kept track he did he
23. 0:58was here to slinging like he had like
24. 1:00spicy chicken he gave it to the audience
25. 1:02all right it was a cooking demonstration
26. 1:03we don't think it felt like a dream not
27. 1:06an aspirational dream but I mean like a
28. 1:08dream where you drink
29. 1:14as fun as yes he opened a not a chain
30. 1:18maybe I don't know if it still exists
31. 1:20but he opened his own fried chicken
32. 1:22restaurant it's you know what it is it's
33. 1:24a saturated market a lot there's a lot
34. 1:27of fast food options it's a literally
35. 1:30saturated market well and where did you
36. 1:32grow up where are you from from Saginaw
37. 1:35Michigan it's just uh you know hey I
38. 1:38know we'd get that response our warm-up
39. 1:42guide on is from Saginaw and he tells
40. 1:44the audience this every single night and
41. 1:46no one really ever dares but he tells us
42. 1:49that every single night yeah yeah you
43. 1:51guys are both Saginaw we ins what is
44. 1:53that order you go by what do what do I
45. 1:55want sagging sagging awesome sagging
46. 1:59awesome that's good I would make for a
47. 2:01nice t-shirt it someone is literally
48. 2:04making plans for it as they watch the
49. 2:05show I know you probably got here by a
50. 2:07plane or something like that but why did
51. 2:09you move to Los Angeles I I wanted to
52. 2:12act I I sort of immersed myself in this
53. 2:14my entire life I was like you know
54. 2:16obsessed with it and and I went to be a
55. 2:19background extra in a movie and it was a
56. 2:22movie written and directed by Lance
57. 2:23black who wrote milk he won an Academy
58. 2:25Award for running milk which is a
59. 2:27beautiful oh yeah right and and I just
60. 2:29saw him at the audition and I figured
61. 2:31I'm not gonna get a speaking part but I
62. 2:32just saw him and I thought I'm gonna
63. 2:33congratulate him on his Oscar so I
64. 2:35walked up and I said hey I just want to
65. 2:37say congrats on milk it's a beautiful
66. 2:38film I love your speech I'm a Christian
67. 2:41and when you said God doesn't hate gay
68. 2:42people like that brought me to tears
69. 2:44that needs to be said thank you and I
70. 2:46just said what I felt and was ready to
71. 2:48walk away and and he said there might be
72. 2:50a part for you let me get your name and
73. 2:52he brought me back and and I booked like
74. 2:54[Applause]
75. 2:57yeah he remembered you from that from
76. 3:00that he didn't even know if you could
77. 3:01act and he gave me that part well I did
78. 3:04have to audition but um but you know I
79. 3:05was pretty like I said I was very
80. 3:07aggressive and immersive so well guys I
81. 3:09was auditioning against they worked at
82. 3:10like Sam Goody they didn't you know they
83. 3:12didn't work yet you know they weren't as
84. 3:14obsessed as I was this was back home
85. 3:16this is back home in Michigan and I made
86. 3:19some money and I moved to LA two months
87. 3:21later was crazy oh you made the money
88. 3:22and then that got you out here yeah if
89. 3:24you keep in touch with him at all
90. 3:26I texted I tried to bother him he's a
91. 3:27busy guys got family and he's you know
92. 3:29he's doing speaking engagements but I I
93. 3:31text him once a year just to remind him
94. 3:32like you gave Lance Black gave me my
95. 3:34start yeah yeah that's better he takes
96. 3:37some pleasure in that and he's gonna be
97. 3:39excited to see you in this movie well
98. 3:41you know this movement which I thought
99. 3:43was great and you were fantastic in it
100. 3:45it's called Richard Jewell this is the
101. 3:47story of the man who is now deceased who
102. 3:52was wrongly accused of planting a bomb
103. 3:55at the Olympics in Atlanta it was in
104. 3:58it's a you know it's a sad it is a sad
105. 4:00story for sure it's heavy you know it's
106. 4:03one of those movies that it's sort of
107. 4:06like you have to google it afterwards
108. 4:07because some of the things seem so
109. 4:08unbelievable and then you find out the
110. 4:10real and it's and it's pretty
111. 4:11jaw-dropping and painful but um but we
112. 4:13kept it light on the set you know we had
113. 4:14guests speaking of it being real yeah I
114. 4:17mentioned this to Sam Rockwell when he
115. 4:19was here I was there in I was working at
116. 4:23a radio station I was in the parking lot
117. 4:25of Sat litter Jules apartment complex
118. 4:28what's with the media that was depicted
119. 4:31in the film and it looked and it is
120. 4:34exactly as I remembered it I mean
121. 4:37exactly as I remembered it and it's a
122. 4:39very strange experience to see that it's
123. 4:41almost like watching like a home movie
124. 4:43or something but yeah I happen to be
125. 4:44there covering the Olympics I was a
126. 4:46sports guy on a radio station and this
127. 4:48happened it became the big story and we
128. 4:50were out the parking lot just waiting
129. 4:52for something I don't know what knots it
130. 4:54was I was around a 24-hour you know 24/7
131. 4:56news cycle and yes events of that so
132. 4:58suddenly everybody's like maybe we'll
133. 5:00just stay here to see what we get and
134. 5:02we'll put it on whenever you know is it
135. 5:04intimidating to be directed by Clint
136. 5:07Eastwood no and it should have
137. 5:11and I don't say that out of any like
138. 5:12poise or arrogance it's more like he
139. 5:15puts you at ease he reminds you he's a
140. 5:16film fan himself and although a lot of
141. 5:19the great directors I've worked with
142. 5:20spike lead Kraig glass bead Clint
143. 5:22Eastwood they all show that there's
144. 5:23still fans and people and family men so
145. 5:26it it de-escalates the nerves but but um
146. 5:29I was more you know nervous to me Bobby
147. 5:31jewel Richard's mother I mean that was
148. 5:33crazy oh yeah oh you met his mother she
149. 5:35came out of the Warner Brothers lot and
150. 5:36and I was just like you know I got the
151. 5:38part holy cow and then a couple days
152. 5:40later they're like you got to come back
153. 5:41and meet the real people and I'm like oh
154. 5:42this is feels like another audition so I
155. 5:45go in to meet them but they couldn't
156. 5:46have been sweeter at one point Bobby
157. 5:48Jewell was looking at me like a
158. 5:50thousand-yard stare and so I'm wondering
159. 5:52if she's judging me and she mad that I'm
160. 5:54the guy who's playing her son and then
161. 5:56she goes you look just like Richard do
162. 5:58you let you assign my son Wow and she
163. 6:00says you're doing things like him that
164. 6:03you don't even know you're doing that
165. 6:04her like him so it felt like the
166. 6:06ultimate sign off to get it you know her
167. 6:08approval I would imagine so what were
168. 6:10you doing intentionally doing things
169. 6:12like him or was itwas looking for bombs
170. 6:14in the office some inherent stuff you
171. 6:21know we're we do have similar tendencies
172. 6:24and traits you know I'm sure you do you
173. 6:26think so huh yeah more than I like a lot
174. 6:29of the characters I play whether good
175. 6:30guys are scummy guys I got a lot in
176. 6:32common with a lot of them there's a
177. 6:34reason there's a reason I get these
178. 6:35parts you know what I mean do you think
179. 6:38that Clint Eastwood is someone you will
180. 6:40like keep in touch with regularly over
181. 6:43the course of your life god I hope so
182. 6:45I mean I'll hopefully he's not sick of
183. 6:46me he's been seeing a lot of me recently
184. 6:48but uh I make him laugh - you know like
185. 6:50I try I'm I'm the same but I don't know
186. 6:52how to put on like airs I just I'm the
187. 6:54same person with everybody so I had fun
188. 6:56making a bluff and just keeping what
189. 6:58makes Clint Eastwood laughs I think
190. 7:00spontaneity he's so used to so much of
191. 7:02what he does that like he's made like
192. 7:0430-some movies that I just tried like
193. 7:07you know keep keeping it moving and
194. 7:09keeping the improv go there was a day
195. 7:10where we did a karaoke scene which thank
196. 7:11God isn't in the film seriously we had a
197. 7:15karaoke scene like a cut but but in the
198. 7:17scene I I you know Clint looked at me at
199. 7:19one point as if there wasn't enough
200. 7:20pressure and he goes do you even know
201. 7:22how to sing
202. 7:24and I just everyone's looking at like 40
203. 7:26crew members are looking at me after he
204. 7:28says that I go L is for the way you
205. 7:32looked at me I'm talking to you Clint II
206. 7:35I just like I immediately went into like
207. 7:37a whole like you know Frank Sinatra
208. 7:40thing and he was cracking up and he
209. 7:42looked at me he goes always with the
210. 7:44tricks well you did a terrific job in
211. 7:49the movie it's R it's really good it's
212. 7:51called Richard Jewell it opens in
213. 7:53theaters tomorrow Paul Walter Hauser
214. 7:54everybody
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