For Paul Walter Hauser, playing the title character in Clint Eastwood’s true-life drama Richard Jewell represented a rare opportunity. “I’ve never headlined a film before,” Hauser, known for …
Richard Jewell
In the film, Hauser portrays Jewell, the security guard who discovered a pipe bomb planted in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta during the 1996 Summer Games. Jewell helped crowds to safety before the bomb exploded, only to soon find himself wrongly painted by law enforcement and the media as having plotted the attack himself. Hauser says he learned Eastwood had picked him for the role while shooting a film overseas.
Jewell’s innocence was eventually affirmed by the FBI, but the stain on his reputation proved difficult to erase. He died in 2007. His mother Bobi, who defended her son from the get-go, is still alive and played in the film by Kathy Bates.
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