{"id":53201,"date":"2023-11-11T09:01:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T09:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/11\/its-a-background-i-understand-paul-giamatti-used-academic-upbringing-to-prepare-for-the-holdovers\/"},"modified":"2023-11-11T09:01:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T09:01:42","slug":"its-a-background-i-understand-paul-giamatti-used-academic-upbringing-to-prepare-for-the-holdovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/11\/its-a-background-i-understand-paul-giamatti-used-academic-upbringing-to-prepare-for-the-holdovers\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It’s a background I understand’: Paul Giamatti used academic upbringing to prepare for The Holdovers"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Paul Giamatti<\/a> drew on his academic upbringing for his role in ‘The Holdovers’.<\/p>\n

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Paul Giamatti comes from an academic family<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old star plays grumpy history teacher Paul Hunham in the 1970s-set film and he used his family background in the profession to help him bring the character to life.<\/p>\n

Paul told Parade magazine: “My father was a professor and President of Yale University.<\/p>\n

“My mother was a teacher and my grandparents were all teachers. Everyone in my family is a teacher or academic so it’s a background I understand.”<\/p>\n

Giamatti attended elite schools like the students in the movie and used his experiences as preparation for the part.<\/p>\n

\nThe ‘Billions’ actor said: “I didn’t board there, but I went to a prep school like the one in the movie. Part of my preparation for the role was thinking about my past and people that I knew in the past.<\/p>\n

\n“My character is a disciplinarian, a hard-ass; he’s kind of a square guy. And he has lots of grotesque physical problems that put people off. He is not a beloved teacher.”<\/p>\n

\nPaul previously revealed that he considered going into academia before the sudden death of his father A. Bartlett Giamatti from a heart attack in 1989.<\/p>\n

\nThe ‘Cinderella Man’ star said: “I thought about going into an academic life. Though I don’t think I would’ve been suited for it.<\/p>\n

\n“It’s because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. His death threw everybody for a loop. I had just graduated. He died before I knew what I was going to do with my life.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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