While Paul Rudd wasn’t bothered by the food he had to eat, the actor wasn’t exactly down with the reasoning for it. “‘Well, what’s the point of any of this?’ Why am I killing myself when [Chris Hemsworth] can exist, and then I’d look at what I’m doing, and I’m like, ‘And then this exists.’ I can never achieve that,” he told “Off Menu.” “That was the good thing, is that [it was] Ant-Man. It isn’t Thor.”
Rudd, of course, was directed in all three “Ant-Man” films by Peyton Reed. And while the original “Ant-Man” director, Edgar Wright, can’t speak about his version of the film because of a nondisclosure agreement, it would be interesting to know if Rudd’s diet would have been less restrictive under the auspices of the “Shaun of the Dead” filmmaker.
Wright revealed the “crucial difference” in his version of “Ant-Man” in an interview with the podcast “Reel Feedback,” noting, “Scott Lang was an actual criminal at the start of the film and not already a 100% good guy.” Would that have meant less physical training? Only the ants creeping around in the nooks and crannies of Wright’s office will ever know.
