{"id":894584,"date":"2026-10-25T22:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T22:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/894584\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T22:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T22:18:11","slug":"so-about-that-clayface-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/894584\/","title":{"rendered":"So, About That ‘Clayface’ Cameo…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clayface<\/a>\u00a0is out, and a movie about a shapeshifter<\/a> naturally involves a decent amount of that. Once the movie\u2019s established its main players, you can guess who Matt Hagen will end up being, but there\u2019s one blink and you\u2019ll miss it face that would\u2019ve added another facet to Matt\u2019s character.<\/p>\n

\"Io9<\/p>\n

That would be Aaron Paul as Jimmy \u201cOne Nut,\u201d Matt\u2019s father referenced earlier in the film by a Gotham gangster who killed him. In the third act, Matt storms mobster Victor Szabo\u2019s club, briefly becoming Jimmy long enough to distract that same gangster and punch him. Originally, we would\u2019ve seen more of Paul in the film\u2014director James Watkins told Entertainment Weekly<\/a> he\u2019d have featured in scenes flashing back to Matt\u2019s childhood in Gotham.<\/p>\n

In those sequences, Paul would\u2019ve played the elder, abusive Hagen, with Watkins explaining the film almost explored \u201csins of the father\u201d as a theme. Over time, he decided revenge was \u201cmore universal and relatable,\u201d citing movies like\u00a0John Wick\u00a0and\u00a0The Equalizer\u00a0as evidence. To him, Matt \u201cis a decent guy, then like all people, we all have primal impulses within us that can be dangerous, whether that\u2019s impulses for love, whether that\u2019s impulses for retribution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter whether you\u2019re carrying a trauma or any of that,\u201d Watkins continued. \u201cIf we\u2019re slighted, we carry this sense of being wronged and we all want to do something, but generally in life we can\u2019t do anything about it and we\u2019re powerless.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result, Paul\u2019s Jimmy was used to help Matt get his revenge and \u201cprobably\u201d prove that he\u2019s not his father. But if that\u2019s Watkins\u2019 intent, maybe Clayface\u00a0should\u2019ve had at least one of those flashbacks to properly make that point?<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out the best movies and TV shows<\/a> to stream this month and all the upcoming sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books<\/a> that should be on your radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clayface\u00a0is out, and a movie about a shapeshifter naturally involves a decent amount of that. Once the movie\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[18085,88,261205],"class_list":["post-894584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-clayface","tag-entertainment","tag-james-watkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}