Paul Giamatti Won't Reveal Secret to Lazy Eye in 'The Holdovers,' Though It's Not Real
29.12.2023 - 04:48
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Don’t expect to learn the secret behind Paul Giamatti‘s lazy eye in the movie The Holdovers, because he doesn’t want you to know.
he 56-year-old Oscar-nominated actor stars in the new film as a teacher at a boarding school who is forced to spend Christmas break as the guardian to a handful of students who don’t have anywhere to go for the holidays.
Paul‘s character is described as a curmudgeon with an odor problem and he also has a glass eye. Director Alexander Payne reportedly had only Paul in mind for the role.
“I was deeply touched,” he joked in an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “How can I not. The part is fantastic. It’s a fantastic part. Smelling like fish was just the cherry on top. It really was.”
So, is that his real eye?
Keep reading to find out more…
No, it’s not! That’s not what Paul looks like in real life. See a recent photo below!
In an interview with Yahoo, Paul was asked how they achieved the look of the eye. He responded, “It’s a mystery that I can’t reveal. It’s all just the magic of film and acting. I can’t tell you exactly how we did that. I’ve been sworn a secrecy, sir.”
Paul also told People, “I’m not allowed to tell you. I’m not joking. It’s a state secret. I’ve been sworn to secrecy. Alexander‘s enjoying the fact that people are wondering so much how we did it. He and I just say it’s the magic of acting in cinema. That’s what it is. It’s just movie magic.”
Dominic Sessa, who plays the young student in The Holdovers, talked about the eye with The Daily Beast.
“It definitely messes you up,” he said. “It helped to get into the character more, because when his eye is doing that, it changes his whole face, his whole aura about him. You really see him for the character—he loses all