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And yet most people will come over and go, ‘Hey, this is not my locker!’ Or people will do a twist on it - I’ll be in an airport and someone will go, ‘Hey, that’s not my suitcase!’ You never know what resonates with people.”

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I’ve met so many people who’ve done many, many things and they’ll go, ‘Oh man, Aliens.’ It was over 30 years ago, but you never know, you never know.”Īliens fits into a general theme about Reiser’s work, where “generally the things that I work the hardest on have the least impact.” Meanwhile, he says, what does seem to stick are “things that I was just lucky enough to be a part of, that I had nothing to do with, really.”Īs one example, he mentions Beverly Hills Cop: “In the first one I had, I don’t know, six lines and one of them, I ad-libbed because I didn’t know how to get out of the scene: ‘Oh, this is not my locker.’ I watched it recently with my son - it’s almost off-camera, it’s on the cut, it’s almost not even in the movie. Certainly you see the movie’s effect on the films that have come since then - so many films emulate the mechanics of the film, the pacing of the film, the structure of the film, the special effects, the actual props and the weaponry.

Beyond that, I don’t think I’ve gotten work because of it, but what I have only come to really appreciate in the last five years or so is how deep and wide the impact of the film is. While he’s not sure what kind of impact Aliens has had on his career, he does say that he imagines “it has something to do with why the Duffers called me for Stranger Things. Somebody told me, ‘They said, what? This guy Reiser, he did Stranger Things so now he thinks he’s a comedian?'” Reiser is currently touring as a stand-up around the country and notes that at his shows, “I can see in the audience that there’s little pockets of all of those kids who only know me from Stranger Things or The Boys might not know. If it’s a couple in their fifties, it’s Mad About You, and if it’s a guy in their seventies it’s The Kominski Method.” If somebody 20 to 34 knows me, it’s The Boys.

If somebody under 20 knows me, it’s Stranger Things. So these days, what do people recognize him from, when they spot him on the street? As part of a wide-ranging conversation about his career, Reiser tells Consequence that right now, “It’s almost always broken down by age.

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Beginning his career as a stand-up comedian before breaking out as an actor in Barry Levinson’s Diner, he’s become a familiar face across film and TV for decades, just this year making appearances on Prime Video’s The Boys, Netflix’s Stranger Things, and Hulu’s Reboot. It’s hard to know where to start with Paul Reiser, because his is a story packed with unpredictable twists.