Paul Rudd will soon be known to the world as Ant-Man, but later this month he will celebrate 20years since he was introduced as Josh, Cher Horowitz's cute but nerdystepbrother in the 1995 classic Clueless.
“To think it’s been 20 years is pretty nuts to me” the 46-year-old star told HELLO! at the Cinema Society premiere of Ant-Man in New York City on Monday. “Generally it doesn’t feel like that long ago, but it’s such an honor to be a part of a movie where people are talking about it’s 20 year anniversary, and for that I’m grateful.”
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Paul certainly has more to be gratefulabout as he will make is first superhero debut in Marvel’s Ant-Man.In the film, Paul plays a burglar/conman that is released from prison and isworking on turning over a new leaf in life. Everything is great, until there isone last heist, where he meets Dr. Hank Pyn, the creator of the Ant-Man suit,played by Michael Douglas.
“What was the most excitingpart, knowing I was getting to work with Michael Douglas,” he gushed about his co-star at the Audi sponsored premiere.
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The funny-man admits thatsome people had reservations about him taking on the role of the superhero,who has the ability to shrink down to the size of an ant. One personin particular really wasn’t impressed — his son Jack. “I came home and said to my9-year-old boy that ‘I’m going to play a super hero. I am Ant Man. Really me,your dad in the flesh,” he said in a recent interview with dispatch.com. “He said ‘Dad, you’re notcool enough to play Ant Man.”
Jack did come around once his dad brought him to a screening of the Marvel movie. “The look on my son's face wasthe best review,” he told the site. “When the lights came up, he looked at meand said ‘Dad that was awesome.’”
