Ahead of the movie’s release,Screen Rantinterviewed Paul Walter Hauser to discussThe Luckiest Man in America.
Instead,Hauser actually offered Frank Abagnale Jr. as a better point of comparison for Larson.
I had to be in the makeup chair at three in the morning!"
I think we captured the kind of drab workforce 1980s rather than the club scene."
“I was like, ‘I think that’s my buddy, Brian Geraghty.
I think Brian would kill that.
An unemployed ice cream truck driver discovers a pattern that could make him rich on a popular 1980s game show. As he exploits the loophole, his winning streak draws the attention of suspicious network executives, leading to a tense showdown between one man’s determination and corporate scrutiny.
Slap a ‘stache and glasses [on him]’,” Hauser recalls.
“And they were like, ‘Oh, sure.
You sound like you know him?
Can you hit him up?’
Are you doing something you shouldn’t?”
“But she was so game, and would do bits with me.
His winning streak is threatened when the bewildered executives in the control room start to uncover his real motivations.
Stay tuned for our otherLuckiest Man in Americainterview with co-writer/director Samir Oliveros!
The Luckiest Man in Americais now in theaters.
