(jazz music)
- What was that thing you were complaining about
the Me Too movement, before we started rolling? What was it?
- I wasn't, no, I wasn't complaining about that.
- Now you don't want to say anything
now that the cameras are going.
Okay. I'm in.
Hi, welcome to another edition of Between Two Ferns.
My guest today is Paul Rudd.
Thank you, Paul.
- Thank you.
- Some people have it all looks talent.
How does it feel to only have looks?
- Great?
- I read that you might quit acting and just disappear.
- Where did you read that?
- Right here. I wrote it down.
Which do you prefer, being in Marvel movies
or being in stuff that nobody has ever heard of?
- Being in Marvel movies.
- When you do go to your acting coach and go,
I've got to play a goddamn ant.
What am I supposed to do?
- You lost me at acting coach.
- Yeah, that seems about right.
Do you have any tips for people who have to interview you
who are worried that they might die of boredom?
- Well, you could maybe feign interest in me.
- That's all I do is feign.
I'm not interested in you. I'm feigning right now.
- Clearly. No, I got that out of the gate.
- Okay.
Tell us how you got your start and show business?
- Well, I mean, I-
- Can you just do it without the umms and the pauses?
Can you just (snapping).
- I fucked my way to the top.
- You fucked your way to the C list?
- Yeah.
- I mean, most people would try to
go a couple of letters up.
up to the A.
- I went right to the middle.
- Yeah.
What advice would you give to a young actor
who wants to hide his Jewishness as well as you have?
- But I've never really tried to hide my Jewishness.
- "I've really never tried to hide Jewishness".
Jesus was Jewish and he didn't hide it.
- No, he put it out there for everybody to see.
He's one of our best.
- You you practicing?
- No, I'm not a practicing Jew.
I perfected it.
- Do you have any advice for aspiring young actors
who wants to become comedy adjacent?
- Comedy adjacent?
- Not comedy, but comedy's neighbor.
- I think I know what you're saying.
- Not necessarily invited to comedy's house,
but sometimes you can come over and borrow a cup of sugar.
- I can hang out with comedy.
And come to his house, if I don't.
- Just don't do your comedy.
- Well, yeah. Get to know Will Ferrell.
- Regarding your career,
do you think it would be just as rewarding
if you played roles that weren't forgettable?
- I when I'm taking on a role, I like to think that
I'm trying, I'm making it memorable in some way.
Is there anything that I have played
that has been memorable to you?
- Weren't you in a commercial for a bank or something?
I don't do commercials.
- I know.
- Because, why do you know that?
- Because I can't imagine any advertising company
wanting you to try and sell their product.
- Why? I could do it. Anybody can do it.
It's frigging easy.
- "Hi, I'm Zach, have you tried this oikos yogurt"?
- If you're gonna go with the anti Greek racist stuff
or wherever, if this is where you're going with this.
Your people are lucky that my people,
set the bar for your people.
- That you would even refer to "My people" is a offensive.
- You just said that all Greeks eat yogurt fuck goats.
You just said that.
- I didn't. I just said you.
Not all Greeks.
You eat yogurt and fuck goats.
Good luck with whoever you interview next.
I'm sure it will go better than this.
Or maybe not.
- Even the way he walked off was forgettable.
Nobody will remember that you just walked off.
I promise you.
Even if I leave it in there,
no one will remember.
Especially if I leave it in the edit,
no one will remember it.
Who was he just interviewing?
Was that just air or was that
a collection of atoms and matter of a human being,
that doesn't know what the fuck is going on?
Is that what, what I just witnessed?
That's probably what they would say.
Oh, I've seen that guy in the movie.
I remembered that, forgot about him.
See this, this air is 95% better than
what occupying that chair.
I'll just talk to the chair then.
Do you have any other projects going on?
Fuck? What the fuck am I doing?
- [Narrator] Between Two Ferns The movie.
It's streaming now on Netflix.