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It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne.

I'm willing to bet that you've seen a lot of Paul Walter Houser lately.

Let's take a look at these credits here.

Let's see here. We've got his early work,

I-Tanya to Five Bloods,

the lead in Clint Eastwood's movie about Richard Jewell.

There's that classic sketch from I Think You Should Leave.

Grab the keys.

Grab the keys to get the frigging's,

I'll stop you, Joe Brodies!

And then there's the more recent stuff.

He plays Liam Neeson's partner in the new Naked

gun movie. He plays Mole Man in the Fantastic Four. He's also in big upcoming movies like Americana

and that biopic about Bruce Springsteen. As I said, there is a lot of Paul Walter Hauser

these days. He is always great. The kid has,

as they say, made it. The path that Houser took to making it, though, is pretty unique and was

pretty fraught. Growing up in Michigan, he knew from an early age he wanted to act,

maybe write, maybe get a job on Saturday night live.

And by early age, I mean like 13.

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