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Paul Rudd has eyes on the Super Bowl while out promoting ‘Ant-Man’
Just days away from Super Bowl LVII, Paul Rudd is on the edge of his seat with anticipation.
Paul Rudd is doing a promotional tour for his up-coming ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ film, the third in the franchise, but the 53-year-old actor can’t help but have an eye on the 2023 Super Bowl.
His favorite team, the Kansas City Chiefs, are set to do battle against the Philadelphia Eagles in this year’s deciding game.
The actor, who stars in the Marvel movie as ‘Ant-Man’ alongside Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Evangeline Lilly, has been a Kansas City Chiefs fan since he moved to Kansas as a child.
The action adventure film will be released February 17 — just a handful of days after the Super Bowl. However, Rudd is going to do his best to make it to the big game to cheer on his home team, especially after having so much fun last year.
The actor is going to try to be at the Super Bowl in Phoenix on Sunday
“The plan is to be in the stadium,’ the actor said Saturday. “That’s the plan.”
Rudd told People Magazine that with the promotional tour, he doesn’t know if it’s possible to go to the game in person — plus, he may not be able to handle the excitement.
“I’m hoping that I can see it in person,” Rudd said. “Although watching that game is very stressful.”
Fox Sports posted a clip of Rudd at the 2020 Super Bowl after the Chiefs’ victory in the 2020 Super Bowl cheering the Chiefs to victory. Rudd celebrates with the players, congratulating them by high-fiving and hugging them and jumping up and down.
Rudd explains his connection between ‘Ant Man’ and the NFL
With the promotional tour going on at the same time as the Super Bowl, Paul Rudd is reflecting on the early days of playing Ant-Man in 2014, where he had the opportunity to shoot in Levi’s Stadium in, which had just opened, and go to the first game the 49ers ever played there. The team was playing against the Denver Broncos.
“One of the coolest things I got to do when we shot the very first ‘Ant-Man’ film was when Levi’s Stadium had just opened, and I got to go to the very first game that the 49ers played in the stadium,” Rudd said.
“It was in the preseason, and I got to sit next to Dwight Clark,” the actor continued. “The nicest man, a great family.”
“We talked and hung out the whole game, and we kept in touch for the rest of his life. Rest his soul. What a gentleman. What an honor and a thrill. And I got to know him because we were filming ‘Ant-Man’ in San Francisco. I treasure that probably more than anything.”