-[ Grunts ]
[ Weapon whirs ]
-Ahh!
-Okay, I have a suit.
-Yeah, I noticed.
You okay? -Yes!
-Look, momentum, right?
Jump, tap, right?
One move. Jump-tap. -I know how to do it, Dad!
-Oh, do you? -Yes!
-Really? 'Cause it didn't look like it from my end.
-I messed up on the timing.
-Jump -- Ahh.
Ahh!
-Oh!
-[ Grunts ]
-Like that. You see what I did? You see what I did?
-No.
You're like, this small.
-I jumped and tapped!
-Welcome back to "Late Night"!
We're here with Paul Rudd!
[ Cheers and applause ]
That was a clip from "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,"
a very anticipated film.
-I don't know if this is true or not.
Somehow, I heard word that
Schumaker was somehow able to get tickets
on Thursday night. -Yeah!
-Who does he know? -Yeah!
He's been walking around --
I guess he knows this Jeff Fandango guy.
[ Laughter ]
-He must be high up. -Hollywood bigwig.
High up the Marvel chain.
-That's impressive.
-This is really fun. Third movie.
-Third one. -Third one of the Ant-Man.
And this one's a really fun dynamic of teenage daughter,
which you have now. -Mm-hmm. Yep.
-How have you found being a parent of a teenage daughter?
Are you enjoying that journey?
I know it's the front end of being a teenager.
-It's great. -Yeah?
-My daughter, she's just now starting to approach that,
and I'm a little nervous.
People always say, "Oh, teenage daughters.
There's a few years there where it can be a little challenging."
And it hasn't been yet, but -- -She hasn't turned on you yet?
-Interview me in "Ant-Man 4." -Yeah, okay. Got you.
-Not that there is one, by the way.
Just, yeah.
It just seemed like that was the right joke to say for the --
-But now everybody at Marvel right now is
pulling their hair out. -Yeah, that's right.
-"We told him not to even talk about it!"
-But on "Ant-Man 7," I'm gonna say,
"She's the best. She's so accepting.
And she became a real friend.
And open, and..."
-And "Ant-Man 10," where you're like,
"And now she has a daughter!"
-I know, it's so crazy. It's so nuts.
You know, being a grandfather is really something special.
A little harder to get into the suit,
but we're managing! -There you go.
Now I know, and we've talked about this before.
First of all, it's always so great to have you here.
Oftentimes, I sort of am lucky enough to have you,
but it's the end of your press tour, and I get it.
You're sort of exhausted about talking about this movie.
There's probably no more
anecdotes from the set to share.
-It's a tricky thing, you know?
You want to, "Oh, what's been going on?
Are there any funny stories or anything?"
And you get a little kind of tired.
And there's only so --
-Right, it wasn't like every day there were hijinks.
-The well gets dry. -Yeah.
So as a favor to you,
I would like you to tell us a story
about something that didn't happen.
-Okay.
-Just to give you a break, right?
-An anecdote, something that just didn't happen to me?
-Do you want me to just make up the top of it for you?
-Yeah, sure. -Okay, great.
-Oh, this is my favorite kind of water, by the way.
-Yeah?
[ Laughter ]
Well, we had a regular size,
but then we heard you wanted to tie it into Ant-Man.
[ Laughter ]
-That's right. Yeah.
[ Applause ]
You're the best, man. -No
-You are the best.
I will do tie-ins!
-Hold on, I'm gonna chug it.
[ Cheering ]
-Wow.
[ Applause ]
[ Crunches ] -Oh.
[ Crunch ]
[ Empty bottle thuds ]
Alright.
-So you don't mind? -No, whatever you want.
-I will say the kind of story that I would like you
to be coming here to tell. -Okay.
-So I heard you were skiing in Switzerland,
and you were on one of those gondolas.
-Yeah. -And it stopped halfway up
and you were stuck on it with 11 strangers for 24 hours.
-It was the craziest thing.
Also it was the first time I'd ever been there.
I'm nervous about heights anyway. -Sure.
-And the few times that I'd taken the ski --
It was the two-seater, you know?
Like, the standard. I hate it.
But the great thing about being in Switzerland, in the Alps,
they have the gondolas. -Yeah.
Nice and warm, protected from the elements.
-Warm, protected.
The thing is, is when you are in there
with all of those people and it stops,
they're from different parts of the world.
I was the only one who spoke English.
-Oh, God.
-Yeah! And...
[ Laughter ]
And power goes out, everything, it shut down,
and there was no way that we were gonna get down,
and I was really panicked.
And so I started asking people, "What do we do?"
And no one could talk to me.
-Did you feel like any of them even recognized you?
Because again, your movies are internationally known.
Did you feel any recognition?
-No, not at all.
[ Laughter ] There was one person,
one person who did recognize me.
But they were ultimately disappointed,
because they actually pegged me for being a writer on your show.
[ Laughter ] -Oh, right.
[ Applause ]
-All the way around. -Wow, wow.
-All the way around. -Right. Oh, wow.
-Yeah. -See, that was a great story.
-It got a little slow in the middle.
-But I think when you can pay it off like that --
Don't be hard -- When you get worried
about not having stories on talk shows,
just ask for the ol' set-up. -Yeah. That's just it.
You throw anything, it's a much better way to go.
Did I tell you about the time I was scuba diving
in Cozumel?
-And so just real quick before you tell me,
happened or didn't happen? -Didn't happen.
-Tell me.
-Well, apparently -- I'm new to scuba diving.
You're not supposed to fly the next day.
-Oh, gotcha. -Also, when you go below
60 feet or something, you have to kind of
decompress for three minutes.
You get something called, I think, nitrogen narcosis.
Something like that.
And then I you fly the next day,
you can get the bends. you can die.
-Oh, okay.
-I came this close...
[ Laughter ]
...to getting an early flight out of Cozumel.
-Wow!
And you think you full-on would have died
if you got on it?
-I know I would have died. -Wow!
[ Laughter ]
-I know I would have died. -Talk about a dodged bullet!
-Oh, my God.
And it was only because the flight --
we were there and there was an issue with the plane,
so I had to wait a whole day.
It was Mexico. There's not a lot of flights.
So I had to wait.
-And now is it true that you actually
made a big scene about the fact
that there was a problem with the plane?
You were like, "Do you know who I am?"
-That's exactly right.
-And in reality, though, you didn't realize at the time
your life was being saved.
-Had no clue. -Wow!
-None whatsoever.
But I had to get back. I knew I had to get back.
You know why? -Why?
-It was the championship game Chiefs vs. Bengals,
and I'm like, "I can't be late to this!
My son will never forgive me!"
-Right!
But meanwhile, he's lucky you did,
'cause otherwise, he'd be at the Super Bowl alone
'cause his dad, dead in the air.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah. -What a crazy story.
-All things work out the way they're supposed to work out.
Yeah, yeah.
And by the way, the diving was phenomenal.
-Oh, great.
[ Laughter ]
-Real quick, three favorite things you saw underwater.
-My three favorite things I saw?
-I know you're 60 feet or more at this point,
but what are the three favorite things you saw?
-Parrotfish. -Okay.
[ Laughter ]
-I saw an eel, which by the way, you think, oh --
They're very hard to see, but I was able.
I was over a bit of a reef,
and I did get to see a moray eel.
-Okay. They're hard to see because they move so fast?
-No, they don't like to be seen. -Okay, gotcha.
[ Laughter ]
-And then -So parrotfish, moray eel.
-Parrotfish, moray eel,
and then just a body.
I don't know, it was just, like, floating.
[ Laughter ]
I don't know what happened.
I didn't follow up on it.
-Now, that's interesting.
Did you tell, or were you sort of like, you know what?
-I was too freaked out. I didn't say a word.
I was like, "Oh, my God. There's just a dead body."
Maybe it went deeper than 60 feet,
didn't take the time, and then...
-Didn't take the class.
Everybody has to take the class before they go diving,
and that guy was like, "I'm fine."
"I'm fine. I got it. You can breathe. I get it.
I'll use this.
I'll go up, I'll be able to breathe again."
Nitrogen narcosis knocked him out.
-Wow. -Yeah.
-What a cool -- I mean, again,
obviously not a story he can tell,
but pretty cool that Paul Rudd was who found him.
-He'll never know. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
Thank you so much for sharing
these things that never happened.
-I've never talked about this before!
-It's wonderful.
You guys, that's Paul Rudd!
There's nobody better.
"Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania"
premieres in theaters and IMAX February 17th.
We'll be right back with Popsicle Schtick.
-I love Popsicle Schtick!