00:00Hi, I'm Paul Rudd, and I'm here to talk about some of my collaborators.
00:05Lisa Kudrow is so...
00:06I always thought whenever I would watch an episode of Friends,
00:10like she just doesn't miss a moment.
00:12She's so good.
00:13That could be a pretty intense, you know, experience
00:16to kind of step into this incredible group of people
00:19that were very well established.
00:21And she was so welcoming and just cool.
00:25She's just really, really cool.
00:27How do you and Joey know each other anyway?
00:32Oh, how do Joey and I know each other?
00:34Wow.
00:35And if I had a nickel for every time somebody's asked me that.
00:38I really treasure all of them for making me feel so welcoming.
00:43I felt like they were friends.
00:45I mean, Anchorman is just like the greatest joy ever.
00:51It was so fun and so funny,
00:53and I was so excited to be working amongst incredibly funny people.
00:58I mean, Will Ferrell is...
01:00That guy's on Mount Rushmore.
01:02Ryan, I'm going to be honest with you.
01:03That smells like pure gasoline.
01:05They've done studies, you know.
01:0760% of the time, it works every time.
01:11That doesn't make sense.
01:12You just...
01:13To see Will and his mind work,
01:16you feel like, oh my God,
01:17this is like you have a front row seat
01:19to these amazing musicians jamming in a studio or something.
01:22I remember walking out of the door,
01:25we're filming a scene
01:26when we're not supposed to see Ron Burgundy,
01:29and we walk out,
01:31and we just had to turn and then stop,
01:33and Will is standing right here
01:35as a, like a hobo,
01:37and Cruella and I were standing right next to each other.
01:40That was when he said,
01:41milk was a bad choice.
01:47It's so damn hot.
01:51Milk was a bad choice.
01:54And I remember looking at Steve.
01:56We were looking right at each other,
01:58trying to really not laugh,
02:00because the sound would have picked it up.
02:02But I just remember,
02:04milk was a bad choice.
02:05Jesus Christ,
02:06is that maybe the funniest thing you could possibly say?
02:09That's Will Ferrell.
02:10Olivia Colman.
02:12I met Olivia Colman 26 years ago, I'd say.
02:16We were in a play together.
02:18We did Long Day's Journey Into Night together in London.
02:20I loved her immediately.
02:22She was very funny and great.
02:25We have been friends,
02:26very good friends ever since that production.
02:29She's as good as you think she is
02:32in both the talent department
02:34and the just person department.
02:36All right, so now I'm reading a question out loud
02:39that Olivia is asking me.
02:41I want to know why you look so good,
02:44because that's really fucking annoying.
02:46You've got younger looking as we've all gotten older.
02:48I'm beginning to think I'm beginning to look like I could be your mom.
02:52Share your secrets.
02:54I have no secrets, Col.
02:56I call her Collie.
02:57I think you look fantastic, Col.
02:59I don't know what you're talking about.
03:00I'm a withering 80-year-old man on the inside.
03:05Judd Apatow, who I've worked with several times now.
03:08Judd is, you know, he's the mayor of comedy.
03:12He was very collaborative.
03:13Judd is somebody that I think doesn't look at comedy
03:16in the way that maybe everybody else does.
03:18I don't think that he uses it in such black and white terms.
03:22I think that he really finds the human side of this stuff.
03:26He can go far,
03:27but he always keeps everything really rooted in a reality.
03:31What else are you lying about?
03:34I've taken Viagra for two years.
03:37I ate six muffins downstairs a while ago,
03:39and my cholesterol level is 305.
03:42My heart could explode at any second.
03:44These might be my very last words.
03:47What are we even doing?
03:49What are we doing?
03:50I think that's why those films that he makes really do work.
03:55Bradley Cooper, that was, I think it was Bradley's first movie.
03:58Hey, let's all promise that in 10 years from today,
04:02we'll meet again,
04:03and we'll see what kind of people we've blossomed into.
04:06Yeah!
04:07There was something very excitable and excited about him
04:10that was kind of contagious.
04:12He was like a golden retriever.
04:14And then I see the kind of the course that his career has taken,
04:17and I'm not surprised because he's really smart,
04:19and he's very driven,
04:21and has a lot of interests,
04:22and is really talented.
04:24So it's pretty cool to think back.
04:26Oh, yeah, it's Bradley Cooper's first movie.
04:28I was in that.
04:28I think it might have been Elizabeth Banks' first movie, too.
04:30But Parks and Rec, I mean,
04:32that is, uh, I mean,
04:34who on that show isn't amazing?
04:37Well, Mr. Newport, we meet at last.
04:38I'm Leslie Knope.
04:40Ah, okie-dokie.
04:41So, do you want me to sign that to Miss Lope,
04:42or just Nesney?
04:43What?
04:44Amy Poehler is brilliant.
04:46She's a genius,
04:47and a lovely person.
04:49I got to work with her several times.
04:52Same with Adam Scott,
04:53who is my, probably like, my best friend,
04:56going back to when he was a teenager,
04:58and I was 60.
05:00Come on, give me it.
05:01Just give me the election.
05:02I'm sorry.
05:03Please.
05:04Please.
05:05Well, Leslie, he does make a compelling argument.
05:07Come on.
05:08Ugh, come on.
05:10Guy.
05:12Bobby.
05:12Alright, so this is a question from Adam.
05:14I imagine it's going to be a weird question.
05:16I know before you left and moved to New York
05:18back in the 90s,
05:19you kind of felt like it was time to leave L.A.
05:22What was the lowest point there
05:24before you decided L.A. wasn't for you?
05:28Oh, that's kind of a regular question.
05:30Yeah, I was going to acting school,
05:31the same one Adam went to in L.A.,
05:34but I always had kind of my,
05:36this idea that I was going to go to New York
05:38because I really wanted to do theater.
05:40And I thought, oh, I'll know when it's time to go.
05:43The universe will give me the message.
05:45And the universe did give me the message
05:47in the form of five car accidents within one week.
05:51I had my car stolen.
05:53I had to rent a car.
05:54That car got hit by a hit-and-run two days later.
05:56And then I borrowed a friend's car.
05:58It hydroplaned down a hill into another car.
06:01Then I rented another car.
06:04That one was hit by a hit-and-run driver.
06:05I thought, I'm going to go to New York.
06:07I don't need a car.
06:08And I came to New York.
06:09I got an audition for the Manhattan Theater Club.
06:12I'm walking down the street,
06:13going over the lines
06:14because I have to go do the audition.
06:16And I'm not paying attention to where I was going.
06:18And I run into a guy, and it was Tom Hulse.
06:20And I said, well, this is weird.
06:21I'm on my way to the Manhattan Theater Club.
06:23And I bumped into you
06:24because I was doing a monologue from Amadeus.
06:27And he said, oh, that is weird.
06:29Do you live in New York?
06:30I said, no, I live in LA,
06:31but I'm thinking about moving here.
06:32I like it.
06:33He goes, you should.
06:33New York's great.
06:34You'd have a great time here.
06:35And I said, okay, I will.
06:37I thought, this is pretty much the universe
06:40giving me as many messages as possible.
06:42I rented a car to put my stuff in storage.
06:44One in the morning, I hear a crash.
06:46I wake up.
06:47I look outside.
06:48Right in front of my window was my rental car,
06:51totaled by a hit-and-run driver.
06:52A week later, I moved to New York,
06:54and I've been here ever since.
06:56That's true.
06:58Kevin Feige.
06:59He's just a very smart man,
07:00but a very nice and good person.
07:04But one thing people might not know about him
07:06is he is a real comedy nerd.
07:09And I don't think that would surprise people,
07:11but he just loves really irreverent comedies.
07:15And I remember when we were filming Ant-Man,
07:17Tim and Eric were doing a live show.
07:19And so we went,
07:20and I remember introducing him to Tim Heidecker,
07:23and he was like a little kid meeting his hero.
07:27And it was really sweet.
07:29Here we go.
07:30This is my question from Kevin Feige.
07:33You did some writing on the Ant-Man movies.
07:35You could certainly write screenplays if you wanted to.
07:37Is that interesting to you?
07:38Yeah, it is.
07:39It wasn't anything I've set out to do.
07:42I've written a few things.
07:42I didn't work on the last Ant-Man movie,
07:44but the first two, I did.
07:46And yeah, it was an interesting, cool experience.
07:49And I got to also work with Adam McKay,
07:51who had worked with the past on that.
07:52Yeah, certainly.
07:54John Carney.
07:55I love his films.
07:56I love him.
07:57He's so good at marrying narrative and music,
08:00and they work together kind of in tandem
08:03in a way that I don't know many directors
08:05can pull off like he does.
08:07With Power Ballot,
08:08it was a real thrill to get to work with him.
08:10The way he would direct was, in a way, like a musician,
08:13because he is one.
08:15If something would happen in a scene,
08:16he'd say, let's follow that,
08:18kind of like a musician does with other musicians.
08:21If they're in a studio and they're jamming
08:23and they come across some kind of chord progression
08:25or some kind of something,
08:26and they're like, oh, yeah, let's flesh that out.
08:30He'll do that while you're filming.
08:31There's something so alive about that
08:34and really exciting to work on
08:37because you just don't know what a scene's going to be.
08:39Oh, questions from John Carney.
08:42All right.
08:42John, will you do my next film?
08:45Absolutely.
08:46You asked John, and it is binding.
08:49Now you have to put me in.
08:50Number two.
08:51You think like a filmmaker.
08:52You don't need me to explain.
08:54It's like you can get inside my head looking at you.
08:57Have you considered directing a film?
08:59What a nice thing to say.
09:00I think that maybe comes from having done it now a lot
09:04that I understand just a little bit
09:07of the machinations of filming and of storytelling.
09:10I do imagine at some point
09:13I would probably direct something
09:14and maybe it would be something that I wrote,
09:16but I also don't,
09:17I'd have to love it a whole bunch
09:19because it's such a commitment.
09:21It's so long.
09:22Sometimes I work with friends
09:24and in a way it turns into that
09:26that we're all writing and all directing and all acting.
09:29Like, it's just, it really is a collaborative experience
09:31and those are my favorite experiences.
09:34I don't have the thing where it's like,
09:35all right, this is what I'm directing
09:37and I'm going to do it next.
09:39We'll see.
09:39It may happen.
09:41It may not.
09:42Depends on if I just get off my ass.
09:46Yeah.
09:46I'm also a big fan of sitting around.
09:48It's funny.
09:49I work a lot.
09:50For somebody that works all the time,
09:52I'm quite content not working.
09:56Sounds great.
09:57Sounds really good to me.
09:59Sounds really good to me.
10:01Sounds really good to me.
10:04Sounds really good to me.
10:04Sounds really good to me.
10:10Sounds really good to me.
10:10Sounds really good to me.
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