{
  "id": 16270139,
  "title": "‘Clayface’ Director James Watkins Explains Aaron Paul’s Cameo: “A Real Brief Easter Egg”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/24/clayface-director-james-watkins-explains-aaron-pauls-cameo-a-real",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-24T03:00:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/10/clayface-james-watkins-explains-aaron-paul-cameo-1237172273/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Director James Watkins has confirmed that Aaron Paul makes a brief appearance in the DC Studios film Clayface. Paul appears for approximately one second as Jimmy “One Nut” Hagen, the father of Matt Hagen, who is played by Tom Rhys Harries. According to TheWrap, the cameo occurs during a club-set fight scene near the end of the movie when Matt uses his clay powers to transform into his father to scare mobsters.\n\nTheWrap reports that Paul originally had a more significant role portraying Matt's abusive father in a series of flashbacks, but those scenes were cut to focus the film on Matt's story. Deadline notes that Paul's character is the man who raised Matt in the slums of Gotham City.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "TheWrap",
        "title": "Aaron Paul’s Blink-And-You’ll-Miss-It ‘Clayface’ Cameo, Explained",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/24/aaron-pauls-blink-and-youll-miss-it-clayface-cameo-explained",
        "published": "2026-10-24T00:30:44.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}