Paul Walter Hauser

I've made some music, and now I'm trying this – wrestling thing out. And I think a lot of people, a lot of haters online who don't like it and think it's like super lame. But at the same time, I think there's a place for everybody in wrestling. There's there's different types of people the same way in hip hop. You have Earl Sweatshirt and you have Action Bronson and you have Drake.

These are different styles within the form. Yeah. And so I'm just one of those many styles in that form. I think I think if you're having fun doing it, people appreciate it. They'll see the passion.

And I'm just trying to put it over in the mainstream too of like if I could someday get nominated for an Oscar or a Tony Award but I'm also doing an independent wrestling show in front of 800 people I think that's kind of awesome. I like the idea of

Like if it were reversed and I'm just watching somebody do it, if a random character actor like John C. Reilly or Paul Giamatti showed up at a wrestling show and wrestled and they were actually decent, I'd be very entertained by that. Yeah. I'd find it fascinating. Yeah.

Yeah. Or U.S. champ or or open weight champion in MLW. We'll see. I'll see how far I can take it.

Thanks, man. Yeah, somebody sent me that clip the day it came out. A couple people that I didn't know were like diehard PMT fans. They were all hitting me up and sending me that clip. It was very humbly and sweet. I think anyone can win an Oscar, but it's not even about...

acumen, like they're so great they're going to win an Oscar, it's usually about the marriage of the role with the performer, right? So, you know, there are people who back in the day in 93, 94... They looked at Brendan Fraser and Jamie Foxx, and they were like, oh, the guy from Encino Man? Oh, the guy from In Living Color? And then they won Oscars for The Whale and Ray.

So, you know, it's really just about that right marriage of role. I think I've had a couple roles that could have been nominated based on what they were and me showing up and doing the job, but... But yeah, I'm still looking for that thing where I get to really pop in a great movie and have some form of impact.

Oh, that's awesome, man. Yeah, no, I think that's a... There's a couple movies I've gotten to do that I just think will stand the test of time. And I think, luckily, I'm in that Eastwood ether where whether he's alive or in 20 years when he's gone, it'll be the kind of thing where people will revisit that because it was Eastwood. And I think that's the same with Black Klansman. Yeah.

It's Spike Lee. It's Adam Driver. It's this big film that did well. And I think I, Tonya, too, with being... such a time capsule piece for the 1990s and being a Margot Robbie thing where I felt like that and Wolf of Wall Street and Suicide Squad were the things that said, this is like someone to pay attention to. This is someone who's crushing it. Yeah. It's fun to be in those movies.

I mean, you're never guaranteed that, but like when they come across your proverbial desk, it's like, oh, sick. I get to work with Craig Gillespie or Spike Lee or Clint Eastwood.

I, I listen, I'm hoping, I'm hoping 20 years from now I put the stash on and I can play the, uh, I can play the, um, uh, gymnast coach for, uh, what's, what's the name of that girl? Bella Carolli, right? Bella Carolli. Carrie Strug. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Carrie Strug. I got to play Carrie Strug's, um, gymnast coach. Yeah. Gymnast coach in like 20, 30 years. Right? Yeah. Yeah.

It's so weird, dude. It's so weird that like, it's so weird that I'm playing Chris Farley in this biopic next year because Farley famously played Sean Eckhart, my character and I Tanya in the, the monologue sketch with, um, Nancy Kerrigan when she hosted. Yeah, that is crazy. And, uh, uh,

They famously Jay Leno famously said when the Richard Jewell thing happened, like this guy kind of looks like the guy that whacked Nancy Kerrigan. Right. It was like a famous late night joke that he referenced these two people together. And then Farley also was on SNL and Richard Jewell ended up being on SNL. Yeah. After the whole debacle.

So it's like there's just some weird incestuous creative thing going on with these roles. I don't know what it is.

Well, you know, even before I got the role, and we haven't shot it yet. We're going to shoot it next year at some point, probably later in the year. But... I knew so much about Chris going in because I was just a fan. So I kind of was reading up on him and ingesting Chris Farley stuff the way you would if you were preparing for a role. And I kind of knew most everything about him.

What I found interesting is, you know, he... He had this very highly intellectual side where him and Tim Meadows used to go to foreign films when they were doing Second City in Chicago. And Chris had these really deep conversations with his female friends that sometimes he couldn't have with his male friends. And there was just a very intellectual, sensitive side that not everybody got to see.

Um, especially if they were like a newer friend when he had already been very famous.

I think, I think, you know, in, in telling that story, we hope to show the duality of him as there's a duality to, to many of us. Yeah.

I think I love Chris so much that I'm incapable of letting Chris... I mean, I'm not incapable of letting his fans down. Somebody can order a steak and you give them exactly the filet they ordered and they're still not happy. Right. And they send it back to the kitchen. Some people are impossible. But I love Chris so much that I'm not worried about...