Paul Walter Hauser
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And now we're trying to develop something with him.
We had a great script.
I would say like 90, 95% of it's probably scripted in Balls Up.
But we played around a little bit and found some stuff.
And with comedy, it's a little easier to improvise because at the end of the day, you're usually trying to get the joke, get the laugh.
But in drama, I do it too just to... In drama, it's about keeping it real.
And if you can have a real moment in a dramatic film, maybe it'll be funny or maybe it'll be powerful in its own way or something.
In Deliver Me From Nowhere, the Springsteen movie I did, there's a moment where
Jeremy Allen White, as Bruce Springsteen says, like, I want the original.
I don't like this.
And he, like, storms out of the studio.
And they kept the camera rolling on me and Jeremy Strong and Marc Maron.
They didn't yell cut.
So I just went, you know, because he's saying scrap everything.
I just care about this thing.
And there's a beat we take of silence.
And I just said, I was like, man, I really love Born in the USA.
And it was just genuine.
It wasn't trying to be super funny, but it gets one of the biggest laughs in kind of a non-laugh movie.