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PAUL WALKER, CAN YOU HEAR ME?

By Michael Ferraro | February 25, 2006

Ah, the art of the interview. I love me a good interview. Talking to various film directors, producers, etc., there is nothing better than talking shop.

The one thing I totally hate about interviewing someone is actually transferring the dialogue to a word document, by listening to the recording (as I usually record the interviews with my crappy tape recorder). It’s a process that sometimes takes hours. That’s actually why I don’t really do interviews all that often anymore.

Once I interviewed Rob McKittrick (writer/director) about his film Waiting, on the telephone. I strapped this mic device to the phone in an attempt to record the conversation (which was great because I learned that he wrote the script for that film while living in Central Florida, where I live, and some of the places he waited tables at were places I ate often), but the device fell through and the conversation was wasted.

That was the last interview I’ve done.

But there is one person I want to interview more than anything. I mean, every writer certainly has a dream team list of people they’d love to interview, but mine isn’t as sacred as some. I want to interview… Paul Walker.

Yes, the Paul Walker of 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Skulls, etc. That Paul Walker.

There is something about his acting style that utterly hypnotises me. I’m not too sure what it is – his frat boy mannerisms or laughable serious face poses – but I don’t mind him as much as other people do.

I even wanted him to be the next Anakin Skywalker. I wanted him to be where Hayden Christensen ended up. Have you seen Episode II? Saying Walker couldn’t have done a better job – or even just a more tolerable job – than Christensen, is just silly talk. If Walker was in that film, perhaps it would have gone from 3rd worst movie ever made, to 17th worst movie ever made. All because of a simple casting change. You feelin’ me George Lucas?

With the first Fast and the Furious, the screenwriters, director, and actors took an utterly silly premise (taking DVD players from trucks via a harpoon gun and some Honda Civics) way too seriously, thus making nothing but a bad film all around. With the second film, the crew knew how silly it was and just rolled with it. 2 Fast 2 Furious is guilty pleasure by any standards – a totally enjoyable bad movie. But since it’s that enjoyable, is it really a bad movie? I mean, it entertained me (and continues to do so as I own it on DVD, but never will I own the first one), so maybe it really isn’t a bad movie after all.

Like Running Scared.

Seeing Running Scared, not once but twice so far, made my Walker curiousity go up. He is a lot better in this film than he has been in others. Sure, his accent isn’t very convincing, but his persona is a lot more tolerable. I now want to interview Paul Walker for our fine readers of Film Threat.

I actually tried too. I contacted New Line, I contacted Walker’s publicist and manager. I’ve tried everything so far. With all my e-mails and phone calls, I’ve gotten nowhere. Either Walker is just too busy (as he has had 2 films come out this month alone, and his working with Eastwood on a new project) or his publicists just don’t care about Film Threat. You’d think they’d be down too, since I am one of the few that gave Running Scared a somewhat favorable review.

So Paul, if you’re reading this for some reason, where you at? I won’t loosen your mousse, bro.

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  1. Amber says:

    hi i luv paul walker he is sooooooooooooo hot hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

  2. Stina says:

    Eight Below was also better than i thought. Jason Biggs surprisingly less annoying than he has been in the past.

  3. Michael Ferraro says:

    Wow, Mekia, you didn’t read my post or my review for Running Scared, did you? Because, being the writer of both, I don’t really see an attack anywhere. But maybe that’s because I am bias. No, it’s because I actually read the words that came from my brain, translated with a keyboard, and posted in binary code.

  4. mekia says:

    Geeze..relax…I’ll be glad when people like you stop attacking his every move..I think he’s a great actor and he is so much more than a pretty face. As with anything the more you do it the better you get…I enjoyed both movies and I think he’s growing very well as an actor.

  5. Blaine "The Dude" Fidler says:

    So, Mike, can we officially classify you as being Walker curious?

  6. Michael Ferraro says:

    Jen you should rock it.

    It has Paul Walker in it.

  7. Mark Bell says:

    Eight Below was really good…

  8. jen says:

    Yeah, I totally wanted to see Eight Below.

    For real. There’s something about those dogs. Too bad that desire has since passed, it lasted like three days too.

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