Paul Rudd, who was recently deemed People’s “Sexiest Man Alive,” may be a movie star now, but when he first got his start in Hollywood, he lived the stereotypical struggling actor life.
Yup, Paul Rudd -- he of hit movies (“Ghostbusters: Afterlife," "Ant-Man") and the friendliest smile in show business -- once lived in cruddy apartments and was mostly broke when he hit Los Angeles looking for fame in his early 20s.
"I had no money,” Rudd, 52, recently explained when he sat down with Seth Meyers on “Late Night.”
“I was living with a couple of buddies. My car was terrible -- it would always break down," Rudd said. "I think back to my roommate, Bo, who more often than not would have to drive me to work because my car was always in the shop."
As Insider reported, Meyers countered with "gnarly" hovel woes of his own from his early actor days. Rudd laughed and nodded in agreement, then went on, “[Bo] lived in an apartment complex so bad... but he let me stay in his apartment because I didn't even have the money to get an apartment.”
Rudd didn't have a bed and slept on a towel on his friend's kitchen floor, he shared. While he eventually scrounged up enough scratch to get his own apartment in that same complex, it was a different story when it came to furnishing it.
"I didn't really have much furniture, and I found a mattress out by the dumpster," Rudd said. "And I thought, 'Sweet! Free mattress!’ I just took it up to my room, and then I slept on it, and then the next morning I woke up covered in red bumps."
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And to think a few years later he’d be the love interest in “Clueless,” and do Shakespeare with Leonardo DiCaprio ("Romeo+Juliet”).
Hey, wonder if Rudd suggested enemy bed bugs in the next Ant-Man movie? Guess we'll find out when "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" arrives in 2023.
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