Everyone — from fans to friends in the industry — has joked, at one point or another, about the fact that Paul Rudd is potentially blessed with an unnaturally long life. In April of this year, Rudd’s friend and colleague Jennifer Aniston, who worked with the “Ant-Man” star on “The Object of My Affection” and “Wanderlust,” wrote a social media for his birthday and mentioned that Rudd never gets older. In a now-deleted Instagram story (via People Magazine), Aniston wrote a happy birthday message to Rudd and ended it with, “I love you, you ageless freak!” In a 2020 episode of Variety’s Actors on Actors series, former “Captain America” star Chris Evans asked Rudd, “Why don’t you age? Are you drinking baby blood?” (Rudd insisted he does age despite all evidence to the contrary.
Then there’s the Vulture quiz about Paul Rudd, which removes major identifying features (like red carpet backdrops) from photos of Rudd and asks players to determine which one is older. The quiz, which was concocted by Jesse David Fox and ran on the site in 2013 and 2019, is incredibly hard. Seriously, go try it. You’ll be pretty shocked when you keep accidentally picking the older version of Rudd.
