Paul Walter Hauser is offering a mea culpa for the “mean-spirited” remarks he made about Vin Diesel in an interview last month. On Sunday, the “Richard Jewell” star apologized in a lengthy Instagram post after Hauser implied that the “Fast & Furious” actor was not known for being “on time and approachable.” “A few weeks back, I made a random comment about Vin Diesel.
It started somewhat humorous, but unraveled into me dogging him out over behavior I had heard about on multiple occasions from multiple sources,” Hauser wrote. The Emmy winner said he had “gotten 1 hour of sleep” before flying from Los Angeles to Atlanta “to do a full day of press” for Pixar’s “Inside Out 2.” “I was exhausted and, in my fatigued state, I shot my mouth off and made a careless, needlessly mean-spirited, comment.
That comment was recorded and then went viral,” he wrote. “Just here to say that I am sorry for having made that comment.” In a video posted online in late June, Hauser had shut down a CinemaBlend interviewer who compared his voice acting in “Inside Out 2” to that of Diesel’s in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“Please don’t say that,” Hauser told the interviewer. “Sorry, I love people, but when I hear stories about Hollywood actors who get paid really well and mistreat people, I out them constantly. And it’s a blast.
” Diesel has not publicly addressed Hauser’s remarks. HuffPost has reached out to reps for Hauser and Diesel for com.
