“I still don’t want to just specifically do comedy,” he shared.
Turns out, there are a lot of other lesser known facts about this actor, too.
Here are just a few of the things you never knew about 2021’s Sexiest Man Alive.
Before he was born in New Jersey in 1969, his parents had immigrated to the U.S. from England.
“I knew that, like, my next-door neighbors weren’t having Yorkshire pudding,” headmitted.
Throughout his childhood, Rudd even was able to experience England firsthand.
He and his family often traveled back and forth to Europe to visit relatives.
Their popular store specializes in classic candies and even desserts.
This endeavor all started in 2013, when the previous owner of the store unexpectedly died.
), but, surprisingly, Paul Rudd wasn’t originally interested in the part.
However, he added, “I didn’t realize that the character was African-American.”
“The chemistry was instant, the connection was just there,” the casting director later toldMetro.
“They were just great together.
You couldn’t deny he was the right person to play Josh.”
The rest, as they say, is pop culture history.
In fact, you won’t find him using any sort of social media whatsoever.
The actor is much too busy taking calls from his agent, after all!
“As my world gets bigger, I make a run at keep it smaller,” he toldElle.
“I don’t really want to talk to the people I know.
Let alone people I don’t.”
We can definitely relate, Rudd.
“For about six months, I was a ham glazer,” he revealed during an interview withIMDb.
As a professional ham glazer, Rudd would go through the same process again and again each day.
“I smelled like ham all the time,” he even admitted.
“My friends would make fun of me,” he explained.
It seems as though he was truly destined for show business all along!
However, unlike many comedic actors before him, he has absolutely no experience in that area.
“I never went to Second City.
I didn’t do stand up,” he admitted toVulture.
“I studied classical theater.
That was my thing.”
Rudd has been serious about acting ever since he graduated high school.
As a student, he spent a lot of time starring in Shakespearean plays.
“I loved working on the plays,” he toldShortList.
“My hair was down to the middle of my back.
I was enthusiastic and optimistic and taking everything in.
It was joyous.”
“But I imagine I will for sure.”
In fact, he even lived out the life of Andy himself all of the actors did.
“We lived at the camp.
We slept there,” Rudd revealed toEntertainment Weekly.
“It was likebeingin summer camp.”
In the end, it was more than just the cast that loved the movie.
Fans obviously wanted more of it.
Two years later, another series was created called “Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later.”
Luckily, fans can catch Rudd starring as Andy in all three.
“There was a tube that went underground so I could breathe.”
Rudd had to act it out in a busy public park in New York City.
“But that’s the great thing about New York,” he said.
She happened to be the one working at the public relations firm that he had decided to hire.
Rudd later explained during an interview withLuke Crisellthat he didn’t know a single soul in the big apple.
The twotied the knotin 2003 and now have two children together named Jack and Darby.
In fact, Rudd rushed the fraternitySigma Nu.
(Other notable alumni of Rudd’s fraternity include Harrison Ford and Bob Barker.)
While Rudd didn’t have the highest grades, he did graduate just not from the University of Kansas.
However, he doesn’t have any hate for K.U.
He’s still a huge fan of his original university.
“I wore a K.U.
), he didn’t feel comfortable about it.
What if I just show a clip from another movie?'”
he laterexplainedon the show.
Why did Rudd choose that clip out of everything else in the world?
called ‘Baby Geniuses,'" which boasted the clip he initially almost shared instead.
Paul Rudd, however, originally had other plans for his future when he was growing up.
“It wasn’t in my wheelhouse at all.
I wasn’t from a family that did this or in a place where people did this.”
It wasn’t until Rudd began competing on his high school forensics team that things completely changed for him.
“That was the lightning bolt moment for me,” Rudd said.
“I thought, ‘You know what?
Maybe I do want to be an actor.'”
“My career, it’s weird,” he even once toldThe New York Times.
After wrapping up “Ant-Man,” Rudd saw his own Lego superhero figure for the very first time.
“When you’re like, ‘You know what?
This is working out,'” he said.
