- You follow in a long line of great actors
that have played multiple roles in a project.
I think of Lindsay Lohan.
- By the way, great movie,
and incredible job she did.
- Jean-Claude Van Damme has done it many times.
- The Van Damage.
- I think back to your friend on 'Friends', Lisa Kudrow.
She played twins.
- That's right, she did.
- Did you go back to ask Lisa what it was like?
- No, I didn't.
Part of the reason why I never talk to any of them
is I don't have any of their phone numbers.
- Congratulations on the show,
let's get that out of the way.
You made an excellent show.
'Living With Yourself' is the new series.
It answers the question, what's better than one Paul Rudd?
- I find that highly debatable.
- There's a lot to chew on as an actor for this.
What's the most unintended, or unanticipated challenge
of something like this?
I mean, you know the challenges going in,
you're gonna essentially
have to play a lot of scenes to yourself,
a lot of technical stuff that goes into that.
- Well there's the, first off,
the big challenge of that is how do you do it?
And I went into it not really knowing
exactly how I would go about doing it,
and so I talked to other people
who have done this kind of thing.
I talked to Sam Rockwell who shot the movie 'Moon',
where he's playing opposite himself.
And I came to the understanding
that a lot of times actors will use scene partners,
and then in the scene to film one character,
and then they go around, they do the other.
But I didn't do that,
I just kind of did it to air, to myself.
And I would record the lines,
and I would act opposite my own voice,
and imagine myself being there.
And then I'd flip around and do the other side.
But there are other things that are challenging
that are unanticipated.
One of the first is how we open the show,
which is I come out of a grave in the woods.
And when I read this script I thought,
"Oh that's a really striking kind of way
to start this series."
And I didn't quite really think through the practicalities,
the actual process of shooting myself
coming out of the ground.
And it was terrible.
Terrible experience.
- No kidding, coming out of a grave in a diaper essentially?
- Yeah, wearing a diaper, wrapped in a plastic bag,
bursting out from a grave.
And it was very discombobulating,
and stressful,
and they had a straw, like a tube
that went underground and was sticking out into the grave
so that when I laid down in the open grave
and they put dirt on top of me,
I could breathe, otherwise I couldn't do it.
And some natural instinct in me,
that we all have knows this is not right,
this doesn't feel right and I should not be here.
And it was very nerve wracking.
- This show deals with
some pretty big existential questions.
Are you the kind of person that thinks about those things?
Do you lose sleep thinking of
like, "Am I living in a computer simulation?"
- I've thought about that quite often actually,
and have had really interesting conversations
with professors and scientists
about the possibility that we really are
living in a computer simulation.
I find quantum physics,
in a very rudimentary sense
to be quite fascinating.
And I like to read up on it
so much as I understand it.
It's a pretty heady topic.
But when you talk to somebody
who knows what they're talking about,
and I did talk to several people
who know what they're talking about
when I was working on 'Ant Man',
because we were going into this whole idea of quantum realms
and things like this,
some of these subjects
such as look, we might be in a computer simulation,
if anybody is in a computer simulation,
they wouldn't know they were in a simulation.
All of these ideas of just parallels,
and I find all of that really really fascinating.
- You also in this one
have to act like you're having sex for the first time.
Your clone basically has sex for the first time.
- That's right.
- Super challenging?
- Yeah, it's always,
anything to do with anything sexual is challenging.
The fact that it was my-
playing a character that was kind of like the first time
lent itself to some comedic moments,
and Aisling Bea who plays Kate,
the woman I'm acting opposite in the scene
and in the show is so naturally funny
that it did make it a little bit easier
because we were able to kind of make some jokes
and make it seem like we were not completely in sync,
which is good, because it's a weird thing
to have to do for your job.
- Yeah I know it doesn't feel like a natural act.
- It's not.
I mean it's a natural act.
- It is a natural act. (laughing)
- In the grand scheme of things.
- Right, but not with the cameras,
and for other people's enjoyment.
- Well that could be a natural act with he cameras too.
- That's true.
- But you know,
it depends on who you are
and where those cameras are, what they're for.
- Okay, new topic.
- No let's talk about your sex tape, Josh.
That's what I'm trying to get at.
- I'm not asking for an answer, but I'm just curious,
did you grow up,
you must have grown up as a 'Ghostbusters' fan,
you shot the new 'Ghostbusters' movie,
you were about 15 when the first one came out,
who did you identify with?
Did you memorize that film when it came out?
What's it like to be in the new one?
- Loved 'Ghostbusters'.
Oh my God I loved 'Ghostbusters'.
And I just finished working on this other version
that comes out next year,
and as a 'Ghostbusters' fan it was really exciting.
And I think 'Ghostbusters' fans will hopefully enjoy it
and get something from it,
and it very much exists in that world, so.
Even down to the director, Jason Reitman,
who's a great filmmaker,
but Ivan Reitman, his father,
directed the original 'Ghostbusters'.
And so there was a family business kind of feel to it
that I think enhanced and added to the proceedings.
- I couldn't be more excited.
And last thing, it's the 25 year anniversary of 'Friends',
is that a daily occurrence that you're called "crap bag?"
- I don't get it every day,
but there are moments when somebody will just go,
"Hey crap bag," and it's in those moments
that I just hope they're talking about 'Friends'.
- How do the kids respond
when dad is called "crap bag" in their presence?
- They say "Mom come on, leave him alone."
- (laughing) That was a softball.
My crap bag always buddy.