I'm Alan Olga and this is Clear In Vivid. Conversations about connecting and communicating.

I think when people talk about improvisation and even improvising scenes when you're

working on a film and comedy, it's not really about the jokes. If you can think of one

in the moment, it's great. But if you are really connected with the person you're

acting opposite, you have to kind of innately know, oh, this is where this is going. So

I have to play this seriously to help them do what they're going to do.

That's Paul Rudd. We've acted in a couple of movies together and in fact one of the highlights

of my acting life was a scene we improvised.

One of the reasons it sticks in my memories that we managed to do what Paul was just talking

about, we connected with each other and we went with it wherever it led us. The scene

never made it into the movie but for me it was a highlight and I was glad to be back and

touch with Paul again. This is great to be talking with you because I had so much fun

with you when we acted together. I feel the same. I loved working with you. More than

once we'd been able to do it. I mean going back to the 90s with object of my affection

and then wanderlust we had a blast. One of the highlights for me was that scene we improvised

in wanderlust that never made it into the movie. But I know you were such a good improviser.

Did you ever study improvisation or did you belong to an improv company ever? I never did.

By the way that was a highlight of my career getting me able to do that with you. I never

really studied it in terms of going through second city or doing any of that kind of stuff.

When I was in high school, junior high and then high school I started doing these speech

competitions in our school district. One of the categories that you could perform in

was improvised duet acting. I had an acting partner. We would do these tournaments where

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