Spotlight on: aaron Paul

AARON paul isn’t a dad, yet, but he loves playing one, however flawed that dad might be. “I love working with kids. I have lots of nieces and nephews. I can’t wait to have children of my own,” he said during a recent round of interviews for The 9th Life

Of Louis Drax. even if that kid’s in a coma? That’s the frame for Louis, based on a Liz Jensen’s best- seller of the same name. paul plays two parts – sort of – and one came with a monster suit. “It was a huge process, a four- hour process,” he said of his transformation from ex- boxer, violent dad- with- a- drinking problem peter drax, to a dark, cave- dwelling thing. “It was a big suit that I put on. A latex head. I kind of suppressed the memory. It was a nightmare of an experience. But I actually really enjoyed it,” paul said. The psychological thriller also stars Jamie dornan as a coma specialist tasked with taking care of peter’s seemingly accidentprone son named Louis. – Ap