Most LARPing scholars agree that its current iteration probably dates back to 1977 and the foundation of Dagorhir, a DC-area full-contact medieval contact game played outdoors. On Motherboard: What It Takes to Be a Professional Twitch Gamer To those who would dismiss them, the whole endeavor conjures stereotypical images of nerds in medieval garb swinging foam swords and casting "spells." But beneath the surface, a rich and impressively complex world of performance, community, and art exists all around the world. We told Paul Rudd we’d say something, and he had to say the first thing that came to mind.Jokes about LARPers are easy to the point of being low blows. I have a wife and a son and I watch "Project Runway" and I play cards on Tuesday night and I watch a football game on Sunday. No, it's a banal, very, very normal, humdrum existence. Who else can say that? Mark Linn-Baker from "Perfect Strangers." And now comes a lawsuit. There’s never anything in the tabloids about you. And for all intents and purposes I do think that most things are “hot.” What else do you have in common with Paris? It seems your next movie, "I Love You, Man," where you search for a best man for your wedding, has a little in common with Paris Hilton's show, where she looks for a new BFF. If I was in the next Ghostbusters film, I feel like I could slime just about anybody in the cast and I don't even need a ghost or a proton pack. What skill do you think you could bring to the franchise? You’re rumored to be appearing in the next “Ghostbusters” movie. And she said, "No f***ing way am I going to let you do that!" I didn't get what a receding hairline was I just thought it looked really cool. I was in a big Adam Ant phase and I asked -'cause I had curly hair, kinda like Adam Ant-if I could shave this part of my head to give myself a receding hairline like Adam Ant. What's an unusual habit you had when you were younger that if you were assigned to a court-appointed mentor, they'd be pissed they got you for a protégé?Īs a teenager I was way into New Wave music. But I would not be able to buy tickets to it. I know for a fact, if I was a 13, 14-year-old kid, I would love this movie. It’s a movie about growing up that could destroy the nation's youth. That is not in "The Sandlot." That's not in a kids' movie. Because I was just kind of realizing that almost like the first thing that happens is Seann puts his fingers under my nose 'cause he was with a girl. What will go through the heads of people who bring their young sibling/niece/etc.? I like the idea of a really, really raunchy R-rated kids' movie. I thought, "Well, that's really not what this movie is." It could be. When they first put out the trailer it seemed kinda like a kids' movie, like "The Pacifier" or "Daddy Day Care" or something. People may bring kids to “Role Models” and only later find out it’s not so wholesome. So if I had to use two words to describe me it would be "Massive ego." There’s a fan site about you called "Unassuming Charisma." What do you think about that, and how would you describe yourself in two words?įirst of all, I'm incredibly flattered that anyone would set up a website for me. Metromix spoke with Rudd about potentially misguided expectations for “Role Models,” his own unusual hobbies and what he has in common with Paris Hilton. The script went through many forms in many hands, but it’s Rudd’s rewrite-with help from pals David Wain and Ken Marino-that’s landing on the big screen. Thompson) with an awfully adult vocabulary. But the twist comes from the clients-a socially awkward, teenage role-playing aficionado (Christopher Mintz-Plasse of “Superbad”) and a 10-year-old (Bobb’e J. 7, sounds like it’s right out of the Eddie Murphy/Robin Williams family flick playbook: Rudd and Seann William Scott star as slackers who get arrested and assigned to serve as mentors to a pair of challenging kids. The plot of Rudd’s star vehicle, “Role Models,” opening Nov. Paul Rudd has demonstrated varying degrees of disarming sweetness, dry wit and a foul mouth as a supporting player in hit comedies from “Clueless” to “Knocked Up.” Now he gets a chance to actually star in one.
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