Paul Rudd Explains Why His Shirtless Scene In ‘Ant-Man’ Was Cut

Initially, Paul Rudd did not want to appear on the cover of Men’s Health USA. “My first reaction was: I can’t. There’s no way,” Rudd explained, in his interview for the American cover. “But [mi representante] He told me: ‘No, you don’t understand. You’re going to do the cover. So I thought: ‘It’s going to motivate me. she is going to force me [a hacer ejercicio]. So it was”.

But for Rudd training is something else. “But the fitness I do now has less to do with the fact that I might have to do another Marvel movie or a magazine shoot and more to do with have understood that if you make fitness part of your lifestyle, you will simply feel good“, he explains. That’s the balance of Paul Rudd fitness in a nutshell.

Even so, there are times when working out to stay strong is frustratingly necessary. Like, presumably, for a cover. But also for a Marvel movie. “If I’m doing one of these movies and I know four months from now I have to do a shirtless scene, I’m pretty focused,” says Rudd.

For ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,’ Rudd’s most recent appearance as Marvel Comics’ Scott Lang, the actor says he had to exercise extra.

“I worked very hard to get back in shape for Quantumania, and I found that it is much harder. I had fallen more than in the past. Suddenly my clothes were tight […] So I’d say, ‘Well, I better eat some of these cookies.’ She was irritable and self-conscious. She was not in a good mood. She beat me up a lot.”

Rudd, however, had already learned a lesson in humility after the first Ant-Man. Rudd trained hard for a shirtless scene. And then… “The shirtless scene was cut,” says Rudd. “In the end the movie dragged on and the scene wasn’t essential.”

The scene is a side view of Rudd’s torso. “On the one hand, he was upset because he had worked hard for a yearsays Rudd. “For another, if I were to see myself shirtless in a Marvel movie, I would just want to make fun of it in every way.”

Although Rudd trained hard again for ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’He had internalized that humility a long time ago. Of that original Ant-Man body, the one that never really saw the camera, Rudd admitted that he really wasn’t that cool. “I would feel like an idiot walking around without a shirt on. Because that’s not my style.” Another lesson from Rudd.