ANT-MAN STAR PAUL RUDD NAMED “SEXIEST MAN ALIVE” BY PEOPLE MAGAZINE

Well, every year People magazine comes out with their “Sexiest Man Of The Year” issue. Several famous men have been named over the years regardless of age from a young Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp to a seasoned Harrison Ford and Sean Connery. Even a few singers have made the list including Country Music superstar Blake Shelton that was helped by being on The Voice. This year they decided on the “ageless wonder”, Paul Rudd for their cover. I can’t comment on his “sexiness” level. I’ll leave that to more skilled individuals. I will say this, Rudd is one of the best, most honest, earnest, and funny actors in the entertainment industry. His simple dry delivery of lines whether his character is pretending to be a jerk or is an actual jerk is so smooth and acceptable that you can’t help but laugh. My favorite Paul Rudd moment was when he was Phoebe’s boyfriend on Friends, and when Phoebe changed her name to Princess Consuela Banana Hammock on a whim he countered with renaming himself “Crapbag”. It wasn’t just the name, but how he delivered his lines in a tone and inflection that was just how someone in real life would deliver them. His performances in movies are an understated humor that makes him more of an every-man actor that makes you feel if you met him on the street he would probably stop and talk to you without being annoyed at all. He’s been in blockbuster hits like Clueless and as the title character of Marvel movies as Ant-Man. Though if you really want to know what kind of humor he can pull off check him out in Role Models, I Love You Man, This Is 40, and Dinner For Schmucks. He also shines as a supporting character in The 40 Year Old Virgin, and the two Anchorman movies. Rudd became one of the most popular memes in the last few years when he appeared on Hot Ones where they interview people while eating progressively hotter chicken wings. He has a running gag with Conan O’Brian where whenever he gets interviewed before his next movie he says he has a clip and it’s always a clip of a scene from the terrible E.T. knock off Mac and Me. When he joins Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show they usually team up to do a shot for shot remake of bad music videos while also doing the singing. One of the best things he did as a dad was to take his daughter trick-or-treating where she dressed up like The Wasp, who is his partner in the Ant-Man movies and instead of dressing as Ant-Man he dressed as Weird Al Yankovic so she got all the attention. So, again I can’t say whether he’s the “sexiest man alive”, but he is one of the most earnest and funny ones, and Paul Rudd is a national treasure.