On Tuesday early morning, Paul Walter Hauser is driving to Starbucks, “keeping it real” he says, in the wake of his brand name brand-new Emmy election for the function of serial killer Larry Hall in Apple TELEVISION+ minimal series Black Bird, which already gathered Critics Choice and DROOP Awards. It’s been “a very, very fun morning,” and there’s “a crazy amount to celebrate.”
It’s likewise a wedding day for SAG-AFTRA talks, and the risk of a stars’ strike looms. It can be challenging for stars to reveal declarations at this phase, not understanding what’s coming. But Hauser is not one for retreating from problem, as evidenced by his sturdy Black Bird function.
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“I’m not going to be a coward and not say anything,” he says. “I guess what I would say is this: I love our studios and our streamers, and they have been tastemakers for decades in the things that I’ve loved watching and now have the privilege to be a part of. Having said that, I feel that if we don’t come together and draw hard lines now, our kindnesses will be misconstrued as weakness, and we could be in a very abusive relationship between creatives and studios. I’m hoping that the studios are a little more George Bailey from It’s a Wonderful Life and a little less Mr. Potter from It’s a Wonderful Life.”
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Hauser’s most recent television offering — likewise an Apple TELEVISION+ program — is The Afterparty Season 2, a whodunnit funny series analyzing the day following a wedding event, from each character’s viewpoint.
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Although a 3rd season has actually not been formally validated, Hauser anticipates a grim future for his character Travis. “The only thing I see for him is probably a woman taking advantage of him. He’s very naive and he clearly is on the rebound,” he says.
Following the weight of playing Larry Hall in Black Bird nevertheless, Hauser calls The Afterparty “a great palate cleanser” and “adult summer camp. I was just cracking jokes and improvising with a bunch of brilliant people, but also having like good heart-to-heart convos with people between the setups. It was just a really meaningful, fun experience and I think that it was one of the best things I got to do experience-wise.”
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Hauser’s brand-new movie task, Americana, opposite Sydney Sweeney, is on the celebration circuit today. Hauser plays “a hopeless romantic in a small rural town,” and calls writer-director Tony Tost’s script, “Far and away like one of the three best screenplays I’ve read that I’ve gotten to do.”
He likewise discussed just recently shooting the Doug Liman-directed movie The Instigators with Matt Damon and Casey Affleck.
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“That was an opportunity to play with really great actors like Matt and Casey and Alfred Molina and all the guys. It was a really cool cast. I just think Doug Liman is somebody who really heightens and elevates action genre. He really is a smart guy. He’s got a method to his madness and wrangled an incredible cast to tell that story.”
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Hauser said he explained the movie to Casey Affleck (who co-wrote the movie script with Chuck MacLean) as “Boston’s Bottle Rocket.”
As for fan preferred Netflix series Cobra Kai, in which Hauser has a repeating function as Stingray, there’s no last season function validated for him yet, however there is a lot of interaction, Hauser says.
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“I talk to the Cobra Kai guys all the time and we tag each other and check in, see how the families are doing. They’ve told me they have some ideas. They haven’t said what those ideas are. But I know that they’re thinking about Stingray and they know that I’m always game to return to the Karate universe.”
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