“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, …
Indeed, the road that would lead him here—and to his standout supporting turns in Lee’sbefore that—took almost exactly that long. In 2009, he was taking his first steps in cinema on the set of Dustin Lance Black’s, which starred Jennifer Connelly and Ed Harris. He had signed up to be an extra on the movie, which shot in his home state of Michigan. “I just wanted to be on a movie set. I just wanted to experience it.
After 14 months in Hollywood, he was sure he was on track. And then… “Insert poop emoji,” Hauser laughs. The work dried up, and with it the money. As quickly as he had arrived in Hollywood, he found himself back in Michigan. He worked at a bowling alley and a butcher shop to make ends meet. People would approach him and say, “Hey, I just saw you on TV. Why are you giving me my bowling shoes?”
There was something else, too. A detail that was missed until the movie was shown for the first time. It is based on the Vanity Fair article about Jewell’s case by Marie Brennan, which contains a small note about a joke Jay Leno had made during the initial flurry of press accusing Jewell. Leno has said that Jewell “had a scary resemblance to the guy who whacked Nancy Kerrigan”. He is referring to Shawn Eckhardt, the character Hauser would go on to play inof Kerrigan.
It is no spoiler, given the relentless pressure we feel on Jewell as his life is pulled apart by his public accusation, that there is a moment in the film at which his kettle overboils, and Hauser delivers a charged speech that encapsulates the injustice he is facing. It is as redolent of classic Hollywood as anything in Eastwood’s recent oeuvre; a true, “you can’t handle the truth” beat. It was scheduled late into the shoot because, says Hauser, “You can’t phone that in.
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