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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPaul Walter Hauser Is Giving the Best Performance on TV Right Now
The veteran character actor stars as a serial killer behind bars in Apple TV+s Black Bird, and is an unsettling as he is captivating.https://www.thedailybeast.com/black-bird-star-paul-walter-hauser-is-giving-the-best-performance-on-tv
There may be more serial killer screen performances in movies and TV than there are actual serial killers, and yet Paul Walter Hausers turn in Black Bird is one for the ages. What the 35-year-old actor is doing in Dennis Lehanes six-part Apple TV+ miniseriesthe penultimate episode debuts Fridayis nothing short of astounding, putting a creepily new spin on a familiar archetype to fashion an indelible portrait of deviant evil. Even in a sea of maniacal villains, his Larry Hall stands out as a uniquely cunning madman, so unpredictable and unnerving as to be downright unforgettable.
Based on James Keene and Hillel Levins non-fiction book In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption, Black Bird concerns Keene (Taron Egerton), a young and cocky 1990s gun-runner whos given an opportunity to escape his ten-year jail sentence by the FBI. They convince him to enter a maximum-security prison in order to cozy up to Hall (Hauser), whos behind bars for the rape and murder of a fifteen-year-old girl.
Hall confessed to that slaying, but his history of lyingand taking credit for crimes he didnt committhreatens to derail his conviction and free him on appeal. The feds want Keene to get Hall to cop to his homicide, as well as the others they suspect hes committed, thus requiring Keene to befriend a pedophilic sociopath and coax him into giving up his secrets, most of which he likes to talk about and then claim are his dreams.
It's a thrilling real-life scenario, and one that Lehane and company dramatize with suspenseful dynamism, especially a sterling Egerton, Greg Kinnear and Sepideh Moafi as the investigators on Halls trail, and the late Ray Liotta as Keenes ailing father (in his final performance). The star of the show, however, is Hauser, the accomplished character-actor vet of I, Tonya, BlacKkKlansman, Richard Jewell, Cruella, and Cobra Kai, whose Hall proves a lunatic like no other.
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Paul Walter Hauser Is Giving the Best Performance on TV Right Now (Original Post)
Celerity
Jul 2022
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SamKnause
(13,108 posts)1. Damn that looks good. Thanks for the info and clip.
Celerity
(43,484 posts)3. yes, I am deffo going to watch it, my wife found it
montanacowboy
(6,098 posts)2. Excellent acting
very well done, and it's a true story
IcyPeas
(21,901 posts)4. this is on my list.