Paul Rudd as Ant-Man in Ant-Man and The Wasp #AntManandtheWaspEvent

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Thank you Disney for inviting me down to LA for the press junket for Ant Man and The Wasp – All expenses paid, however all opinion are my own.

Interview day is always a special one, but this go around was different, I got a little starstruck knowing that I would be talking to my teenage Hollywood crush from Clueless. The moment he walked into the room the energy was just pumping. We all started clapping for him and he was in utter shock ” Gosh, I haven’t even started. Oh my god I’m not going to joke, I was like my reaction is just to immediately join in”.

I think everyone wanted to know, how he felt about Ant-Man and the Wasp being finished and finally coming to theaters?

“It’s great, it’s always a strange thing when it’s coming out. You know, you put so much work for so long into something that to know that people are seeing it and that it’s finally finished is a- is a unique feeling. And it’s exciting. It’s exciting when, you know, you like the finished product. Because you can talk about it and you don’t have to manufacture enthusiasm. But it’s- the filming of it, the experience of it, has been nothing but fun, hard work but really enjoyable.”

Paul Rudd as Ant-Man in Ant-Man and The Wasp #AntManandtheWaspEvent — Marvel Studios ANT-MAN AND THE WASP..Giant-Man/Scott Lang (Paul Rudd)..Photo: Film Frame..©Marvel Studios 2018

One thing that I had notice being a bit different from Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp is the comedy is on point and definitely had that “marvel” feel that we have grown to love and expect.

Was it very hard to bring up the comedic factor after doing such an amazing job in the first Ant-Man when you sat down and co-wrote the script?

“Yes, we feel that we have our own kind of space within this Marvel cinematic universe and our own tone with the

films. And while we want it to work within the universe and want it to be enjoyable for all ages, we’re dealing with parents and

children. This is a theme that runs throughout this story. And a lot of kids want to see these movies and sometimes there’s some

scary things in them. Or there’s some violent things in them that might be a little too intense, so we wanted to make a movie that was enjoyable for lots of people, as well as we wanted it to be funny, but we also wanted it to be engaging and moving in some way. We

wanted it to be visually stunning, even more than the first one. And we wanted the action and the effects to be bigger and better.”

I personally know my kids are really going to enjoy the scene between you and Abby. Can you talk about filming with her? She looks like a natural. And she played off of your character extremely well.

“Abby, the girl who plays Cassie is very talented, she’s a really good actress and a good kid. And it was our second time working together, so

I think she trusts me, so we get along really well. But yeah,I love working with her and I love doing those scenes with her. I like working with kids because you don’t really know what they’re going to do and you just kind of go off of what they’re doing and if you can establish a relationship outside of the film-making, just hanging around set, it can be really fun to film scenes with kids.

As far as my character doing a scene with a girl playing my daughter, it’s not far off. My daughter is a little bit younger

but not much. And those kinds of scenes are accessible to me because I’ve been in them, I know what that’s like. And it’s one of my favorite things because I share that with my own daughter. And she loves it. At first when she was very young, I

used to think, is it going to be weird. When my daughter is old enough and she sees this movie, that she’s going to see me playing dad to a little girl. And instead it’s the opposite. I think she really loves it, because I tell her, you know, you’re the real Cassie.”

What was it like working with Michelle Pfeiffer?

“I mean she’s the best. She’s so nice and she’s just a really lovely person. I’ve worked with her before and this was- it was great because I hadn’t seen her in a while and she was a very-very sweet person. Very smart. Very funny in 25 ways I think people might not know. yeah she’s got a real stealthy cool sense of humor, I find.”

We spoke to Hannah and Michael both and they both thought the world of you and how nice you are and how easy it is to work with you on the set, so what can you say about the rest of your costars on the set?

“All right well this has turned into a love fest for sure. Hannah I met on this film and she’s really talented. I’d seen her in other things and I was like, oh she’s really good. And as far as Michael, I love him so much that, you know. It’s such a thrill when you get to work with legends and certainly he and Michelle and Laurence Fishburne, I feel like oh, they’re making this legitimate. I mean they’re icons. You can do anything with Michael Douglas and it just has gravitas. He’s been in so many films that I’ve loved for so long, all of us really. I admire and appreciate him as an actor, I have now come to admire and appreciate and love him even more as a guy, as a friend. When he’s on set, he’s just he’s just so kind of funny and easy going.
We’ve gotten to the point now where we can talk about life things, not just script stuff and movie stuff and instead, you
know, world events and sports and families, we talk a lot about our kids. And I’m always- it’s great. I feel like we’ve become friends which is still baffling to me, that I can say he would be a friend. But I really- I just really-really love the guy.”

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Paul Rudd as Ant-Man in Ant-Man and The Wasp #AntManandtheWaspEvent

Thank you Disney for inviting me down to LA for the press junket for Ant Man and The Wasp – All expenses paid, however all opinion are my own.

I think everyone wanted to know, how he felt about Ant-Man and the Wasp being finished and finally coming to theaters?

Was it very hard to bring up the comedic factor after doing such an amazing job in the first Ant-Man when you sat down and co-wrote the script?

I personally know my kids are really going to enjoy the scene between you and Abby. Can you talk about filming with her? She looks like a natural. And she played off of your character extremely well.

What was it like working with Michelle Pfeiffer?

We spoke to Hannah and Michael both and they both thought the world of you and how nice you are and how easy it is to work with you on the set, so what can you say about the rest of your costars on the set?

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I think everyone wanted to know, how he felt about Ant-Man and the Wasp being finished and finally coming to theaters?

Was it very hard to bring up the comedic factor after doing such an amazing job in the first Ant-Man when you sat down and co-wrote the script?

I personally know my kids are really going to enjoy the scene between you and Abby. Can you talk about filming with her? She looks like a natural. And she played off of your character extremely well.

We spoke to Hannah and Michael both and they both thought the world of you and how nice you are and how easy it is to work with you on the set, so what can you say about the rest of your costars on the set?

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