Ant-Man star Paul Rudd has confessed he would most like to satisfy Jesus if given the prospect.
The 55 yr old, who’s Jewish, selected Jesus when asked by a reporter for IGV Presents who he would most wish to speak if he could select anyone in history.
“Anyone from history, who would we elect? I do know my answer: Jesus Christ,” he said.
Rudd got his big break within the 1995 classic, Clueless, alongside Alicia Silverstone, and has since starred in lots of hit movies, including the Ant-Man, Avengers and Ghostbusters franchises. He is now busy promoting his latest movie, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
His answer about Jesus drew laughter from his two young co-stars, Mckenna Grace, 17, and Finn Wolfhard, 21. In the light-hearted exchange, Rudd told them they might “laugh all you would like” as he added, “It looks as if it could be a fallacious thing to say.”
He continued, “You say this and folks think like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, you may’t say that,’ and I’d say, ‘Well, why?’ That’s who I might select.”
Wolfhard asked if Jesus was real, to which Rudd replied, “He existed! So would not you must spend a while with him and go ‘Jesus, what is the deal?”‘
Grace replied, “That’s a improbable answer.”
Rudd was raised in Reformed Judaism and has said in a previous interview that his whole family is Jewish and that the Jewish community is sort of a “tribe” that he feels a part of.
Last yr, he told People magazine that if he could speak to his late father now, he would ask him what the afterlife is like and concerning the people he has met on the opposite side.
“Did you stop on the grandparents’ or did you have got great-great-grandparents that you just never knew that were like, ‘Mike, finally. Great to see you.’ Wait till you see what this whole thing’s about. Get ready to your mind to be blown,'” he said.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire opens within the UK on 24 June.
