Paul Walter Hauser has just lately seen his star rocket from “that man” supporting roles (even after his breakout in 2019’s Richard Jewell) to a near-ubiquitous presence throughout motion pictures and TV. He’s performed a fan-favorite character on Cobra Kai, voices Embarrassment in Pixar’s current box office smash Inside Out 2, has a Chris Farley biopic on the best way, and—most significantly for the nerdier followers amongst us—will play an as-yet-unrevealed role in 2025 Marvel Cinematic Universe launch The Fantastic Four.
Speaking to Variety, Hauser—who additionally has someway additionally discovered time to squeeze in a aspect gig as knowledgeable wrestler—says he’s having a blast prepping for the Marvel challenge. Not like some large names in superhero motion pictures, his course of hasn’t concerned some sort of exhausting bodily routine. Fairly, he’s been reading comics. A number of comics.
“Pre-production for me has been studying comedian books and studying the screenplay,” he informed the commerce. “A whole lot of it’s assessing the place I match into that story and easy methods to finest make the most of my time in it. You don’t wish to make decisions or do issues which are redundant in a movie. It’s necessary to know what the movie is and what everybody’s jobs are so that you simply’re bringing your personal distinctive take to one thing … At any time when I’m in an ensemble, I’m attempting to determine easy methods to be distinctive or particular with out being distracting.”
The gig has turned his attentions away from his DC Comics roots, it appears. “I didn’t actually learn Improbable 4 once I was a child,” he went on to clarify. “I used to be very Batman-centric. However studying the Improbable 4 comics has been a blast. I adore it.”
The Improbable 4 is slated to hit theaters July 25, 2025; it’s a part of Marvel’s Part Six. The primary quartet might be performed by Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, with Julia Garner as Silver Surfer and Ralph Ineson as Galactus; Hauser’s in that “we don’t know who they’re enjoying but, however rattling this solid is sweet” group that additionally consists of John Malkovich and Natasha Lyonne.
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