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 Paul Rudd
Spotlight By: Andrea Tuccillo
Paul Rudd’s new comedy The Ten follows a group of characters in ten individual tales, each corresponding to one of the Bible’s Ten Commandments. Rudd plays the narrator, Jeff, who weaves each of these stories together, while also facing some moral dilemmas of his own when he gets tempted into adultery by the beautiful Jessica Alba. In real life, Rudd follows his own set of guidelines. He continues his string of top-notch work in comedic supporting roles yet manages to stay just on the cusp of bonafide leading man status. And that suits him just fine. In The Ten, in which Rudd also received a producing credit, the main role of Jeff the narrator was one that he did not originally intend to play. “It’s a responsibility,” he says of essentially acting as the “glue” of the film. “The trick of making this movie is how do you make it a movie and not an episode of Saturday Night Live? There’s got to be some kind of cohesion to it so that it seems like you’re actually watching a movie. Besides the fact that there are characters and storylines that kind of bleed into one another and they show up in different commandments, one of the later additions was the role of a narrator. It was one that I was never going to play.” But when Jessica Alba signed on to the film and had to shoot her scenes early, the film was in need of a Jeff and since Paul was a producer he accepted the part. Now, he says, he feels a bit guilty about doing so. “This is the thing that also makes me feel skeevy,” he says. “’Cause I know you see this and it seems like I’m a producer on this movie, and I’m in it the most, and I’m kissing Jessica Alba and Famke Janssen. And so I’m very self-conscious about that. I know that perception of that must just be like, ‘Oh God, you’re gross man.’ And I don’t blame people for thinking that.” He’s also a bit uncomfortable with his “over-exposure” as of late. If you’ve been following Rudd’s career you’ll notice that this year alone he has already appeared in the comedy hit Knocked Up and the smaller indie film Diggers , in addition to The Ten. “I’d work on something for like a day or two with my friends who were making a movie and then they all came out this year and it’s annoying,” he says. “I know that if I wasn’t me I’d be so sick of me. I’m me and I’m kind of sick of me!” The film’s unique Ten Commandments theme is one that Rudd sees as more of an outline for the structure of the film than an |
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