Actor Paul Rudd and other celebs share why acting for television is so important.
“It’s kind of wonderful, having a network like AMC that has such incredible programming,” says actor Paul Rudd. “It’s really an honor to be part of it.”
Paul Rudd, an actor who has appeared in a range of movies, including Clueless and Ant-Man, says that acting for television is just as important as acting in a film. He says that acting is acting no matter what medium it is done in.
He says that the more popular television becomes, the more it will be considered just as good as movies. The only thing that sets them apart is that television shows are able to tell their stories over multiple episodes instead of just two hours.
He says that this allows for much deeper characters and story lines.
Actor Paul Rudd believes in the power of television to tell a story.
Rudd, who has appeared on both TV and in movies, was one of the many actors who attended the Paley Center for Media’s fall benefit held at The Waldorf Astoria Wednesday night.
“I’m always happy when I am working,” Rudd told CBS News backstage at the event. “I’ve been fortunate enough to work consistently for a long time.”
The actor said he has found it challenging to go from television to film and vice versa, but ultimately rewarding. He said his experience on “Friends,” which he starred in from 2002-2004, was one of his favorites.
“We had so many people who cared about our show,” Rudd said of the series’ cast and crew. “It was such a fun time [on set].”
When I was growing up, if you wanted to watch a movie, you had to go to the theater. And every Friday my mom would give me five dollars, and I would go see a movie. And now we have these things called televisions in our homes.
This is one of the biggest reasons why I love television so much: I can be at home watching a good television show with my family.
You can watch and re-watch an episode. You can pause it, or even rewind it, which is something we didn’t have before.
You can also store episodes in your DVR and watch them whenever you want.
My favorite shows are The Good Place, The Office and Veep. But there are so many great shows on TV right now!
I’m Paul Rudd, actor and TV fan.
“I think it’s really important to keep the concepts of acting and performing alive, even with the pandemic,” Rudd said. “The arts in general have been hit so hard. And while I’m sure that some films and television shows might be able to go back to work, theater can’t go back until there’s a vaccine.”
“It’s really nice to get this out there for people who are interested in performing and want to see what it’s like,” he added.
Rudd and Schreiber appeared together in the play “Long Days Journey Into Night” on Broadway from February to April.
PAUL RUDD: I grew up in the suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri. My mom was a sales rep for a greeting card company. My dad sold heavy construction equipment and farm implements. They were divorced when I was 10 years old.
I didn’t start acting until I was 20, but I always liked performing. I had a tape recorder, and I would get my friends to come over and do radio shows with me. We’d call up Chinese restaurants and pretend to be the Mafia and tell them we were going to send a hit man over unless they paid us money. Actually, that’s not a joke–that really happened!
I moved to LA after college, and at first it wasn’t easy. I got rejected for every part there was. It wasn’t until 1993 when I got cast on Sisters, which is a television show that nobody remembers now except me, that things started to happen for me.
