Paul Rudd, the most humane of superheroes: from the always nervous family man to the actor who trains like an athlete – Credits: @Richard Shotwell
If those who admire Paul Rud they do it because they appreciate their charisma and their sympathy, they can be sure: they are not wrong. This angel crossing the screen will take you wherever you go and last December, he invariably did so at Comic-Con in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he took to the convention stage to be lauded by a crowd of Ant-Man fans. Later he spoke one-to-one with them THE NATION on various subjects: the World Cup in Qatar (ongoing at the time), his family, physical training, playing a superhero and more Details on the third installment of the Marvel film hitting theaters this Thursday.
The 53-year-old actor knew (and still knows how) how to entertain and even make viewers laugh in the films he has starred in, such as: B. No Idea (1995) – one of his first film roles -, The Reporter: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Virgin at 40 (2005), I love you, brother (2009), Welcome to 40 (2012) and his prominent role in Friends (2002/2004) in the role of Mike, the husband of Phoebe. But without a doubt, the role that in recent years has been driving adults and children who follow the superhero universe closely is that of Ant-Man.
Yes OK he himself once said that he did not consider himself a comedian, it is undeniable that most of his roles have that touch of sympathy and innocence that captivates his audience. Even in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, which hits theaters this Thursday, Rudd plays Scott Lang, an ordinary man who wants to enjoy this ordinary life, but at the same time his chest swells from being recognized as an Avenger by the neighborhood becomes, with one minor inconvenience he humorously takes up: they often mistake him for Spider-Man.
It’s not clear if it’s part of the humility that sets him apart or if there’s some truth to his sayings, but it’s the actor and family man himself who claims that in his real life — between Manhattan and the Hudson Valley — of New York- can walk quietly down the street without being disturbed “because most people don’t know who they are”. It would now be proven that countless cities are wallpapered with his face through the new episode of Marvel.
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Paul Rudd with Evangeline Lilly, with whom he stars in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, the new Marvel installment (Photo by Jesse Grant / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) – Credits: @JESSE GRANT
What’s clear is that Rudd is no stranger to UCM (Marvel Cinematic Universe) fans. When he took the stage at the Sao Paulo convention last December with his director Peyton Reed and his co-stars Evangeline Lilly (Hope Van Dyne) and Jonathan Majors (Kang, the new villain), the screams were deafening. “I had never seen anything like it. So much passion… It was incredible,” he analyzed in an interview the next day THE NATION.
Contrary to what many think of a Hollywood actor used to lights, microphones and cameras, Americans are “always” nervous before an event, as happened in the CCXP. “Especially because I was going out and I didn’t know what to say, what it was going to be like. It was an energy that hit me and I didn’t know what to do or say,” he recalled. For the audience, that hesitation was non-existent and everything flowed naturally, especially given the Latin-style address he himself proposed.
The bar mitzvah DJ-turned-movie-star
Born on April 6, 1969 in Passaic, New Jersey to a family of British parents of Jewish descent.Paul had a childhood of travel with his sister, who was three years his junior, as a result of his father’s work with the airline TWA, which was acquired by American Airlines in 2001.
Eventually, the Rudds settled in Overland Park, Kansas, where the future actor later attended high school and received a major in theater from that state’s university Graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, in Los Angeles. He also took a three-month intensive course with director Michael Kahn at the British Drama Academy, Oxford University, and helped produce and star in Howard Brenton’s Bloody Poetry at the Globe Theater in London.
Paul Rudd in Dunno with Alicia Silverstone
At the age of 22, he starred in a 1991 Super Nintendo commercial while disc jockeying at bar and bat mitzvahs, which kept him connected to his Jewish background. One of his first experiences at the cinema was not what he expected:Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), a suspense film he was a part of, was a total disappointment because it was not well received by audiences. Fortunately, Clueless was also released in 1995, which received nominations for its screenplay, but 1998 saw another fiasco: Chicken Blood and Other Tales began filming, although production was suspended prior to its release.
But in the same year Rudd shared the cast, who he’s been friends with since he was 21, is Jennifer Aniston The object of my affection (1998). It was then that the actor’s favorite relationship with comedy was already emerging. As for her friend, she saw her back in 2002’s ninth season as Rachel Green and backstage on the set of Friends.
Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston and friends shared the screen in The Object of My Affection and, years later, Friends
in 1997, auditioned for the role of Jack in titanic, whose story his father was an amateur historian but did not fit the role. What not everyone knows is that the Ant-Man was now decisive for the choice of the protagonist: in the filming of Romeo + Juliet, by William Shakespeare (1996), with Leonardo DiCaprioPaul heard his co-star was tempted to be part of the James Cameron feature film and although he had failed in the attempt, forced him to show up for the casting.
Paul Rudd was voted the sexiest man alive in 2021 by People
The actor’s career, the In 2021 he was voted the sexiest man alive by People magazine, It’s a multitude of titles in which he has starred as well as supporting roles, but most of them left their mark on the public and they were all part of a growth that they knew would take him to the top of Hollywood could. Who would have thought that Rudd from Slightly Pregnant (2007), who saw Spider-Man in one of the scenes on TV, would fight him (as Ant-Man, of course) in Captain America: Civil War (2016). .
Ant Man and his family
Rudd is not only a celebrity but also a family man. He has been married since 2003 to Julie Yaeger, a producer and screenwriter who was his girlfriend for five years until they married.. They met when she was working as a publicist and he was looking for someone to pursue his career after his role in No Idea (1995). “He was the first person I met in New York. We struck up a conversation and there was a great maturity between the two of us. She had experienced some tragedy in her life and I was like, ‘Wow, that’s a woman, that’s not a girl,'” he said in a 2018 interview with Marie Claire UK.
Paul Rudd with his wife Julie Yaeger – Credits: @VALERIE MACON
Paul and Julie had two children: a boy named Jack Sullivan in 2006 and a girl named Darby in 2010.. It was his little girl who inspired him for his character Scott Lang in the Marvel saga, he said THE NATION. It’s just that in fiction he has to act as a father to Cassie (played by Abby Ryder Fortson, Emma Fuhrmann and Kathryn Newton). “There are things I do on film that I know my own daughter will pick up on and no one else will. I always tell her, ‘You’re the real Cassie.’ She was very young when I did the first Ant Man movie (2015) and I wondered how she would handle it. It made me a little nervous, but I was always very clear with her and told her, “You’re the real one, in a way she’s playing you”. I always try to think about it,” he said, with a glow in his face typical of someone talking about a very loved one.
Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man and Kathryn Newton as Cassandra “Cassie” Lang in the Marvel Studios film AntMan and The Wasp: Quantumania – Credits: @Marvel Studios
In Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, Scott “just wants to be a normal dad and live a normal life,” according to the little that his interpreter was able to say to avoid spoiling the story. His bond with Cassie in this film is special given that she is already a woman and her father still sees her and treats her like a child, something that can happen to Rudd even in real life with Darby, who is close to the children. 13 years, an age marked by puberty.
But beyond the clarifications and differentiations from fiction that the actor once had to do to his young daughter, none of his children are jealous of seeing him play the role of a father on screen, he said loved it, but sometimes I tell them, ‘Well, let’s just watch Black Panther,'” he opened with a laugh.
how to build a superhero
Rudd doesn’t hesitate to admit that discipline is all it takes to don a superhero suit. “My whole life, probably six months or a year before I started recording, has been about training. You train like an athlete,” he commented when speaking to this outlet, saying that physical exercise is not limited to before filming but continues between days of filming.
Paul Rudd in the Ant-Man suit, the superhero that catapulted him into the UCM
“It’s a very long day because I train, I ride that day and I train at night, I go to sleep and follow the same routine. But it’s interesting because I’ve never done it like this in my life. It’s really the same thing an athlete would do and I liked it, but it also required my brain and I think it was the most challenging of all of it,” added the actor, who once said on The Graham Norton Show, adding a dose of humor, frustrated at the sight of a colleague’s corpse: “I remember being on the set of Avengers: Endgame, training hard, eating perfectly for so long, training like an athlete and standing next to Chris Hemsworth thinking: “What? What’s the point? Why try?'”
Aside from his attempt to “put himself down,” Rudd arouses curiosity about his jovial looks at age 53. In an interview with Men’s Health, he revealed some of his secrets, such as how to sleep well, do cardio, lift weights, and eat healthily.
Paul Rudd, the actor who doubles as an ordinary man and a superhero in the new Marvel movie – Credits: @Agencias
On set it’s Scott and Ant-Man, but most of the time it’s Paul. Because for him, the actor, who cannot hide his personality in real life, bonding with his peers is essential. The character who puts on a suit and becomes small in an instant is an analogy of what this Hollywood celebrity portrays: the grandeur, humility and charisma that not many in the film scene can match and which he effortlessly combines to perfection.