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Aaron Paul in a brief cameo as Jimmy 'One Nut' Hagen in DC's ClayfacePhoto via Deadline

Aaron Paul's Clayface Cameo Is A Blink-And-Miss Easter Egg, Director Confirms

Breaking Bad star plays the dead father in a single nightclub sequence. Flashbacks were cut.

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Aaron Paul is in Clayface. You'll miss him if you blink. Director James Watkins confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that the three-time Emmy winner appears for a single beat — as Matt Hagen's father, Jimmy 'One Nut' Hagen, during the climactic Club Vesuvius showdown. Matt, played by Tom Rhys Harries, shape-shifts into his old man's face to spook the gangster who killed him years earlier.

That's it. No flashbacks. No backstory. Just a quick morph and a kill.

Watkins said the script originally carried Paul through Matt's youth in Gotham's slums. Those scenes hit the cutting room floor. 'How much is Matt defined by his past and how much is he an everyman?' Watkins told EW. The answer: revenge works better than trauma.

The film, DC Studios' first R-rated horror entry, is playing in theatres now. Harries leads alongside Naomi Ackie as Dr. Caitlyn Corr and David Dencik as the mafioso Szabo. Enzo Squillino Jr. Plays the actual Jimmy 'One Nut' in the present-day timeline. Paul's casting was first reported by Feature First in June.

The cameo stays a cameo. No post-credits tease. No setup for a return. Just a Breaking Bad alum popping up in a DC horror movie for thirty seconds.

Watch for the Vesuvius fight. Don't look away.

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