Paul Walter Hauser: Emmy Winner To Pro Wrestler, AEW, Hardcore Matches, Playing Mick Foley In A Movie?

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Chris Van Vliet

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4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Paul Walter Hauser (@paulwhausergram) is an actor and professional wrestler. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet at West Coast Creative Studio in Hollywood, CA to discuss his roles in "Cobra Kai" and "I, Tonya", why he turned down the opportunity to be in a movie with John Cena, having wrestling as a side quest, not being discussed in the celebrity wrestling conversation, taking bumps through glass and onto thumbtacks, working with AEW and MLW, which spot hurt the most, his upcoming role as Chris Farley, potentially starring in a Mick Foley biopic, and more!

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0:00.0	Chris Van Bleed!
0:04.0	Yeah.
0:06.0	Then bleed.
0:15.0	Yeah.
0:19.0	So good to see you.
0:20.6	Always good to see you. Always good to see you.
0:21.5	Always good to see you.
0:22.7	Good job, not aging.
0:23.9	Oh.
0:24.4	Way to go.
0:25.0	Well, I guess. I don't know. I feel like it's going to hit me one day. One of up appearances. One day I'm going to wake up and like I'm going to look 70, I feel like. Nah, you're, you're going to be more of a Keanu Reeves type of aging.
0:36.0	I think it's just going to be a slow,
0:37.9	slow burn of just a little bit of droopage, but the handsome face will still be there, you know?
0:43.8	Thank you. It's good. You're looking well. Thanks. Yeah, I feel good for the most part. Wrestling doesn't
0:50.0	make your body feel great, but, but yeah, no, you were just referencing that Jamie Taco
0:56.6	sketch I did for it. I think you should leave. Yeah. Uh, which is weirdly one of like the things I get
1:03.0	called out for the most. That is? Yeah, no, I think I could like, I could get it. I could be like the
1:08.4	villain in the last Fast and Furious movie.
1:15.4	And I would still be Stingray and the guy from I think he should leave.
1:18.1	You're in that episode for like four minutes.
1:18.6	Yeah.
1:20.2	It was like a nine page sketch. It was so long.
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