Paul Walker

Walker stars in Pawn Shop Chronicles, a crime comedy film centered around the events in and around a pawn shop that tells the story of three overlapping lives involving items found within the store. Walker’s character is Raw Dog, a meth addict who plots to rob a local dealer of his stash, but the plan falls apart when one of his co-conspirators pawns the shotgun needed for the crime.

Walker stars in Hours, a thriller film set in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina. Walker plays Nolan Hayes, the father of a newborn baby. Unfortunately, the hurricane floods the hospital and kills the power keeping the neonatal incubators running, and keeping his baby alive. He struggles in a life or death situation on his own as minutes become hours and the incubator runs out of power.

When we first made it I thought that this would be a fun journey, but I didn’t know if anyone would see it because it’s definitely not a commercial movie. It was pretty selfish; it was something I wanted to prove to myself. During filming, my agent asked me how it was going and I told him that I was telling the truth the entire time and there was only one or two times where I didn’t actually believe what I was doing and that’s when I told Eric (Heisserer, the film’s director) to scratch the take. If they don’t like this, then they don’t like me.

Walker stars in and produces The Death and Life of Bobby Z as Tim Kearney, the body double for Bobby Z used by the American embassy. The film follows the attempts by Don Huertero, a Mexican drug lord, to find and Kill Bobby Z, a drug dealer who broke his daughter’s heart and led her to commit suicide.

Walker stars in Running Scared as Joey Gazelle, a low-level mafioso for the Mafia member Tommy Perello. When a drug deal goes wrong, Joey is given the gun that killed several crooked cops and told to dispose of it.

I was going home with this character every day. A girlfriend of mine came out to spend two weeks with me. She left four days into it. I was all like, ‘What?’ And she goes, ‘I see you on set, you come home. You can’t relax. You’re all twitchy and jacked up on adrenaline.’ There’s no other way to do it.

Walker plays Jared Cole in 2005 action film Into the Blue. Jared is among a group of divers who find themselves in trouble with a drug lord after they accidentally find the illegal cargo of a sunken airplane.

At any given time working out there in Iceland we had 300 extras. It would be really stressful and super, super tedious for just about anybody, but what blew me away was just how calm and collected Clint Eastwood was every day.

Walker plays Michael Woods in Vehicle 19, an action thriller originally released in South Africa. Woods, a foreign traveler, unknowingly picks up a rental car that will tie him to a web or corrupt local police. He must clear his name, but also stay alive.

Walker plays Lewis Thomas in Joy Ride, a thriller road film. Lewis, in an attempt to win his childhood friend’s heart, offers to take her home from college. On the road, they encounter a murderous truck driver, Rusty Nail, and take it upon themselves to bring him to justice.

Joyride was an awesome script, I liked John’s shots…Steve Zahn’s awesome, I loved doing stuff with him, I laughed my ass off.

Walker plays Coyote quarterback Lance Harbor in the 1999 film Varsity Blues. It is a high grossing coming of age sports drama that follows a small town high school football team and their overbearing coach through a rocky football season. The team deals with various adolescent issues and pressures in a football obsessed town, where losing is not an option. Walker enjoyed the role and admits wanting to be the character.

Who hasn’t dreamt about being a star player in virtually every sport, you know?…Here I was, I had the opportunity to play in front of thousands upon thousands of screaming fans, and I was the quarterback on top of it, you know?