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Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Award-winning actor Paul Walter Hauser officially confirmed his attachment to a biopic series on WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley during an interview with the Stunner shared on Wednesday (February 18).
“We can kind of break that news. I haven’t said it yet, but I’m attached to play Mick in a limited series. We haven’t gone out to market with it yet, but I’m attached. It’s happening," Hauser said.
Hauser, 39, a lifelong wrestling fan who is signed to Major League Wrestling and appeared in matches and segments for All Elite Wrestling, has long teased playing Foley, 60, widely regarded as one of wrestling's greatest hardcore wrestlers and a multi-time former WWE champion during the 'Attitude Era,' one of its most popular runs in company history, in a biopic.
"I won't get into details, but I've been approached about it, and we're talking to the producers right now, and we've been in discussion for a while. I also got approached to play two other people in the wrestling world in the last couple of months alone," Hauser said during an appearance on the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast in November. "So I'm just kind of like waiting it out to see what what rises to the top. Because movie making is so weird. It might seem like a sure thing, and it goes away, and then sometimes something just pops up out of nowhere. The way we're talking about it, I want to do a Mick Foley limited series, do like a four to six episode thing, and be able to tell the story a little more fully and not just be like, remember the time you fell off the cage? It's like, the guy's done so much more than that. He deserves more respect than that, too."
Foley recently made headlines when he announced he was officially "parting ways" with WWE over its continued ties to President Donald Trump in a post shared on his official Facebook in December. The legendary wrestler, who had publicly criticized Trump in the past, said that the president's "incredibly cruel comments" about legendary director and actor Rob Reiner's death were "the final straw for me."
Foley was inducted into the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2017 and the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013 and the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2010.