Paul Walker’s

Doggie Tale

by Lynn B.

Cute blonde, blue-eyed actor Paul Walker (Fast and Furious, Into the Blue) plays a survival guide in the Antarctic forced to leave behind his beloved sled dogs in the new Disney adventure film Eight Below. He won’t give up until he can go back for them. In real life Paul has pets and has a strong connection with our furry friends and we got him to talk about it.

AGW: How was working with all those dogs?

Paul: Animals. I have a link with them. Someone told me that it had something to do with my birthday. A girlfriend of mine was really into that stuff, and she said that some Virgos, Sept. 12 in particular, you have a connection with domestic animals. Well, maybe it's true because I understand animals and have always had them. From the time that I was a little kid I always had animals around. So I actually relate and understand animals better than I do people. So it worked out pretty well. I think that the real trick would've been like doggie politics, becoming an Alpha Male. I'm dealing with sixty-four dogs and each dog had seven doubles. I knew them all by name. I knew each and every one of their personalities.

AGW: Wow! That’s a lot of dogs. Did you get to keep one for a pet?

Paul: No. They were all spoken for. I wanted to go home with Jasper. He played Shorty in the film, the real squinty one. He was solid white. The only white one, and he was the worst dog to work with. But he was the sweetest dog.

AGW: Why was he hard to work with?

Paul: He just never listened. He never hit his mark. He was always messing up the shot. He had real sensitive eyes. He was white and had light blue eyes. And this was him in the snow [Paul hides everything but his own blue eyes and laughs]. So they would figure out ways to shuffle him out of the shot. The dog never hit his mark. Their teeth and tails were supposed to be down in the snow because they're sad that I left them but not him. He was a knucklehead. He was the fastest one though. He was the most athletic one and the sweetest one.

According to press information, Jasper is three years old and is a rescued stray who loved to play hide and seek in the snow.

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