Paul Walter Hauser

That's right, yeah.

I thought so.

I thought it was fiscally irresponsible for Warner Brothers to cast me and not a real movie star.

But I, you know, that was one of those things that just I was in the middle of shooting a Spike Lee movie in Thailand called The Five Bloods.

And yeah.

Just had a small supporting role, but it's Spike Lee.

You know, you serve sandwiches on that set.

Also, I love sandwiches.

Right.

But I said to them, I was like, you know, I was very content in the moment, but I got a call from my reps who said, hey, you've been offered a Richard Jewell biopic, and it was a TV series, a limited series.

And then three days later, I got offered Richard Jewell, the movie from Clint Eastwood.

So I had competing Richard Jewell offers within 72 hours.

Wow.

One of them was quite lucrative and was ready to go.

And the other one was Clint Eastwood.

Having just chosen me out of the blue and the movie was at Fox, Disney bought Fox and Clint only does movies at Warner Brothers.

There's a whole fiasco behind the scenes of is this thing even going to get made?

And at the 11th hour, they're like, Paul, you got to choose.

You got a high six figure deal, almost seven figures to be on the TV version.

Or you can hope to God Clint gets the movie made.