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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Paul Rudd 2023

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Since we first saw Paul Rudd in Clueless nearly 30 years ago, he has been one of those actors you're just always happy to see on the screen. Rudd has starred in a long list of hit comedies, earned praise for his dramatic roles and of course, now also is known as a superhero. In this week's Sunday Sitdown, Willie Geist and Paul Rudd got together at the White Horse Tavern in New York.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:12.2

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

0:15.4

Man, am I excited to bring you my conversation this week with the one, the only, the beloved.

0:21.4

Paul Rudd.

0:23.2

Paul Rudd's got a new movie out.

0:24.6

It's called Ant-Man and the Wasp, Quantumania.

0:27.6

It's the third Ant-Man movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that about a decade ago

0:34.0

kind of came up unexpectedly for Paul when he got the call and said, hey, you want to

0:38.0

be a superhero.

0:39.0

Obviously, he had made his name in comedies, a guy that people just love to see up on

0:43.6

the screen.

0:44.6

And this was a leap for him into Ant-Man and man, they have been home runs.

0:48.0

And now the third one is out.

0:50.5

Some background for you.

0:51.5

Paul and I got together at the White Horse Tavern, downtown in New York City, down in the

0:56.6

village, really cool old place, exactly what it sounds like, a place you go in and have

1:01.2

a beer and watch a football game.

1:03.0

But on this day, when we sat down, they were getting ready for Valentine's Day.

1:07.8

So the room was decorated sort of in red and pink hearts, things hanging from the ceiling.

1:13.2

It was very festive, but just funny for the two of us to be sitting down in that setting.

1:17.8

So you hear some reference to that at the beginning.

1:19.9

The other thing to know is the Marvel Universe is so secretive that I could not see the movie

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