- Film
- Paul (2011)
- Actor
- David Koechner
- Character
- Gus
- Watch
- Unidentified watch
- Status
- Unidentified
David Koechner plays Gus in Paul, one half of the father-son duo who picks up a hitchhiking alien after Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's characters rescue him from Area 51. Greg Mottola directed this 2011 comedy, which reunites the Shaun of the Dead writers in a love letter to American road movies and science fiction fandom. Koechner's Gus, along with his son played by Jesse Plemons, is a fundamentalist Christian whose worldview gets rattled by encountering an actual extraterrestrial. The film treats his character as both a threat and a figure of fun, chasing the heroes across the American Southwest while struggling with evidence that contradicts everything he believes. Pegg and Frost wrote the script to make use of American comedic actors like Koechner, who brings his trademark intensity to what could have been a one-note antagonist. His watch has not been identified.
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