- Content: Actor Paul Hauser, Wife Share Love Story: ‘Talked about God…Generosity’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Actor Paul Hauser, known for roles in CRUELLA and BLACK BIRD, and wife Amy Boland Hauser, producer of THE TIGER RISING, recently shared their pandemic love story in an I AM SECOND interview.
“I remember I showed up to the date dressed like trash like I looked like a drug dealer,” Paul said about their first date. “I was wearing like a Macho Man Randy Savage t-shirt and baggie board shorts. I looked like a guy that owned a dispensary.”
Paul regrets that he didn’t put in more effort when he met Amy, but she didn’t care.
“So there was some of that going on where I didn’t put my best foot forward when I met her, but I was still myself. I was still Paul,” he explained.
“He was there before me. I was late, which is still consistent to this day,” Amy said. “You knew that he was a good person, and he had a really good heart, and if you’re in the dating world, you know that’s hard to find.”
Amy fell in love with Paul’s caring soul.
“He was just so sweet and so kind, and just had this gentle spirit that I just fell in love with. We had a very good time, and we talked about how much we loved our families. We talked about how much we loved our siblings and our close relationships. We talked about God and just generosity to people,” she said.
“I was so inundated with my job at the time, starring in a $40 million Clint Eastwood biopic. It was funny too; she invited me to church. Not as like a date thing, but I kind of took it as like, ‘Is our second date going to be at church?’” Paul said.
“I don’t know if I want it to be at a church. I don’t know if I can make out with her in church, so I was like, I think I’m going to wait till we get to LA,” Paul joked.
At the time, they were both occupied with movie projects, but the COVID-19 pandemic provided them with ample time to get to know one another.
“I knew he was busy, and I was busy. And I was like, I don’t know how this is going to work, so he went to go film CRUELLA in London, and I was going down to South Georgia to film a movie,” Amy shared.
“January hits. There’s talk of a pandemic, and we’re like what is COVID-19, and I remember there was a stay-at-home order by the city of Los Angeles,” Paul recalled.
So they started to text each other.
“And then, of course, we’re on lockdown, and he said, ‘Do you want to break the law?’ meaning, ‘You want to hang out?’ and I was like, yeah, let’s do that,” Amy said.
“We reconnected during the pandemic in 2020. We had already planned to meet up anyway. It wasn’t like a lack of options, and it became easier to meet up when our lives were totally put on pause and we talked about our families,” Paul said. “We really bonded very quickly.”
“There was just this like feeling of like, I’m so comfortable with you, and I want to hang out with you forever, but you can’t like say that on a second date,” Amy shared.
After they dated for a little while, everything clicked. They both shared the same values and aligned on many things. They knew they had each found their soulmate, so Paul proposed.
“It was so many amazing moments and affirmations and convicted feelings that I was just like, we should probably meet each other’s families this summer and like, move forward with this,” Paul shared.
“We went down to my hometown so he can meet my family in Georgia, and while we were there in my childhood bedroom, he asked me to marry him, and it was just really sweet,” Amy shared. “It was just like, okay the rest of my life begins like I’m finally getting to be a wife, and hopefully I’ll soon be a mom. So we’re like, you know what? Let’s just like we know we want to be married. We know we want. Let’s just do this.”
The couple were married at Amy’s rental home and had a handful of family and friends attend.
“We got to do like a little mini honeymoon in Santa Barbara; we got married and got pregnant within 2 weeks of our marriage,” Paul said.
The couple now has two boys, Harris and Jonah, the latter born just last year.
The family tries to put God first in their endeavors. Paul told PEOPLE in 2022, “I believe I’ve been led by God to tell stories through song.”
Hauser recently shared a collage of photos on his Instagram from 2023—the “best year” of his life. He captioned it:
Best year of my life…
My heart could explode from awe and gratitude. Wow, thank you Lord Jesus for the wins and the children and my beautiful wife and my first wrestling match and my friends and interim agreements and laughter and travel and residuals and tears and therapy and mended fences and broken barriers and constructed boundaries.
Things aren’t perfect. They never will be.
But they are obnoxiously good.
Here but by the grace go we, into 2024.
Movieguide® previously reported on another couple that I AM SECOND interviewed—Chip and Joanna Gaines. They shared how their relationship drew them closer to God:
“I have learned so much about order and structure and processes through my wife,” Chip [said]. “And God is all of those things to me now. But at the beginning, God was just chaotic to me. He was wild. He was untamed. He was unruly. And I liked that.”
For Joanna, God used Chip to push her out of her comfort zone and take more risks.
“I feel like God had a funny way of bringing me Chip to almost have this reality of what it’s like to follow Christ, which is a lot of the things are going to push you to a place of discomfort,” Joanna said. “It helps me get it out there, because it’s healthier to be out there than it is just let it all kind of play in my mind.”
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