By Variety | Created at 2024-12-05 18:19:51 | Updated at 2024-12-25 21:29:22
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Paul Walter Hauser is an active Letterboxd user — sometimes even critiquing his own movies.
On Wednesday night, the actor took to X to respond to a post that reads, “Paul Walter Hauser giving Richard Jewell a 3.5 on Letterboxd, a movie in which he quite literally plays the title character, is one of the funnier things I’ve come across on that app.”
Hauser replied: “If I think The Shawshank Redemption and Schindler’s List are 5/5, and Richard Jewell is not a perfect movie/bonafide classic, what’s wrong with giving an honest rating? It’s a good film that is definitely worth watching. A 3.5 out of 5 is not a slight. It’s reality.”
Hauser starred in the 2019 Clint Eastwood-directed crime thriller as Richard Jewell, the man who found a bomb during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and alerted authorities to evacuate — only to later be wrongly accused of planting the explosives himself. In Variety‘s review, chief film critic Peter Debruge said Eastwood’s casting of a less-experienced actor in the lead worked “brilliantly” in “Richard Jewell,” writing that it allowed “Hauser to shine in a role movie star Jonah Hill once intended to play.”
Hauser further discussed “Richard Jewell” on X, writing, “I love the movie and have so many fond memories on it. [Sam] Rockwell was like an uncle to me. [Jon] Hamm was like a big brother. I met my WIFE while filming in ATL. Sebastian Stan let me stay at his pad for FREE. It was a twinkly sparkly time in my life. And the movie is good.”
“Richard Jewell” isn’t the only film of Hauser’s that he has honestly assessed on Letterboxd. He gave 2024’s “The Instigators,” in which he has a small part, 2.5 stars; 4 stars to Pixar’s “Inside Out 2”; 3.5 to Dreamworks’ “Orion and the Dark”; 3 to Bill Burr’s “Old Dads”; 4 to the unreleased Sydney Sweeney-starring “Americana”; 2.5 to “Queenpins”; and 4.5 to “Cruella.”
