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"New Talent: Paul Walker"
Teen People, November 1998
Take one look at Paul Walker and you'll understand why casting directors can't help putting him in cleats. "I guess I just have that jock look," says the 25-year-old, who's the squeaky-clean, 1950's high school basketball letterman in the upcoming movie Pleasantville. Later this winter, he plays a Texas high school's star quarterback(alongside second-stringer James Van Der Beek) in Varsity Blues. So is he really an athlete or is he just...acting? "Um, I was a good football player," the Southern California native shyly admits about his team experience at Village Christian High School in Sun Valley. Paul--who played a surfer in last year's Meet The Deedles--has discovered that the sporting life has an added bonus: He gets to play boyfriend to Reese Witherspoon in Pleasantville and to Claire Danes in next year's Brokedown Palace. He's been locking lips with, as he puts it, Hollywood's "top chicks!" adding, "I consider myself really fortunate." That may be an understatement: Paul just signed on to play a jock in yet another movie, the comedy She's All That. Looks like he's scored again.