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(26 Apr 2012) PAUL WALKER ON NEW HURRICANE KATRINA THRILLER 'HOURS'
Actor Paul Walker, best known for his role in "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, is trading in fantasy car races for a thriller grounded in reality.
'Hours,' now shooting in New Orleans, tells the story of a father and his newborn baby trying to survive on that fateful August day in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city.
"Basically this guy he's like madly in love with this beautiful girl and it starts off, you know, they just met and things are really good, probably going to get married, and the last thing they're thinking is actually having a child," said Walker on the film's set about his character Nolan. "Cut to two years later, here they are in the hospital, she's giving birth prematurely and it's a scary time. And to make matters worse they're getting hit with this hurricane, Katrina, and hospitals are being vacated, they're doing what they can to keep people going. His baby is reliant on this incubator, this machine, and they vacate everybody from the hospital and he realizes he and his baby have been left behind. So this father's doing everything he can to just keep things going, keep electricity going, just to keep this little baby going."
Walker, a father himself, says it didn't take much acting to play the role with the desperation and urgency it demanded.
"My little girl means the whole world to me," he said. "And I think part of being a parent -- at least the way that I was raised, but I was raised by a bunch of military guys -- is that we're always creating hypothetical situations, because you never want to be caught off guard, especially as a father, you know. The way I was raised is they provide, they protect, that's just the way it is, it's absolute. So the last thing you want as a father is to be caught with your pants down. And this is one of those hypothetical situations where when I read it, my heart goes out for the guy, but at the same time I really want to believe that if I was placed in the same situation that I would rise above, that I would be able to see it through the end and I would do whatever it would take, you know, to make sure that my baby came out on top. So that to me is really, I think, what sings, because even though it isn't real emotionally I get to live it, I get to experience it and at the end of it I get to revel in the victory, so that's what draws me."
'Hours' is slated for release some time in 2013.

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