Question: Is there some of that in this, is he kind of playing that?

Rudd: He’s created a completely unique character in this movie, I mean the one thing I like about both of our characters is that we’re both guys, but we wear our hearts on our sleeves, and he has no problem acting in ways that might not be considered stereotypically macho, and he knows how to pronounce aoli, as do I, and I think that says it all.

Question: Do you think this movie is going to start a trend with mandates?

Rudd: Probably not, does that happen?  There is friend finder, just finding male companionship, those might be different sites than I’m thinking of.

Question: You could try them and get back to us.

Rudd: I will, give me your email addresses and I’ll send you updates on Man dates.

Question: Craigslist is pretty good for that too.

Rudd: It is? You’re starting to reveal something here, I’ve never been to Craigslist or Myspace.

Question: Facebook?  I hear Facebook is better, but I’m with you on Myspace.

Rudd: I’m really behind on this, everybody I know has these pages, and I’ve tried to, but I don’t have a password so I can’t get on, I don’t have an account.

Question: So why doesn’t he have any guy friends?

Rudd: Jason?

Question: Your character, well or Jason, I’m assuming your character, but if Jason doesn’t, you can share.

Rudd: Sorry I was just zoning out.

Question: Guy friends, why doesn’t he have any?

Rudd: Jason does, I don’t.

Question:  Why don’t you have guy friends?

Rudd: I’ve always been kind of a girlfriend guy, not that I’m particularly weird or anything, it’s just that I’ve always been in long relationships and now that I’m kind of in my mid thirties, it’s really exactly said, I don’t even know how old I am, well post college, I have a career and now I’m getting engaged, and during this engagement, Rashida Jones, who plays my fiancée, you know calls all of her friends that are going to be bridesmaids, and I’m not calling anybody to tell them the news, my parents are sleeping, I’ll tell them tomorrow, I don’t really have any close friends that I would share this news with, and so she says, “Why not,” and I said, “I don’t know, I guess I just kind of put all of my energy into my relationships,” and so that’s kind of how it happens that I realize for the first time, I never thought I was missing anything, and so then I have to try because I think she’s weirded out by it, so I have to go out and try to find some friends.

Question: Is there a Vegas sequence somewhere in this?

Rudd: This might be the only movie I’ve done that doesn’t have a Vegas sequence.

Question: And ironically Jon Favreau is in this.

Rudd: I know, that’s true, I think the whole thing takes place in Southern California.

Question: You’re doing some voiceover work for “Monsters and Aliens”, are you done with that, have you started yet?

Rudd: Yeah, I’ve worked on it a little bit and I have a little more to do, I don’t have that much to do in it, but it’s the first time I’ve ever done anything like that, it’s been really cool to see how they do all of that, I’m excited, I don’t know who I want to win yet, the monsters, or the aliens.

Question: Adam McKay recently mentioned something about wanting to get an “Anchorman 2” going, I don’t know if he was joking or not, serious.

Rudd: I saw that, I think that it would be awesome, I would be in there for sure, and I emailed him afterwards, I think he was serious, I don’t think there’s a script or anything like that, I don’t know if there’s been any ideas, and it was so fun to do and I saw him recently and we were just talking about what a blast that was, so hopefully.

Question: That film was kind of ground zero for what is going on now with of a lot of Judd (Apatow), the freedom to make the kind of films he’s making, and for a lot of you guys, it just kind of exposed you to a wider audience so now you can kind of mix and match and do these kind of all star comedy ensembles.

Rudd: Yeah, it was really the most incredible thing to be a part of that, and it changed my life for sure, these last few years all these movies I’ve worked on have stemmed from that really, that crew, and also they’ve been a lot of fun, I’ve never worked, since “Anchorman”, it seems like on working with Judd, there’s a way of making them that’s different than anything I’d ever worked on up to that point, and creatively it’s fulfilling in ways that other things aren’t, and I’m just blown away by how funny all those guys are, to sit and listen to McKay and Will Ferrell talk is so intimidating because it’s so crazy and funny and smart.

Question: What’s next?

Rudd: I have no idea.

Question:  One day at a time?

Rudd: We finish this in a couple weeks I think and then I don’t know, there’s talk of this strike, so we’ll see if that actually happens, I hope not, but I kind of wanted to take a little time off, I feel I was kind of overdue, I worked on a movie last year that we’re gonna do about a week of reshoots on, to add some additional scenes for it and that comes out, I have no idea when.

Question: Is that the David Wains film?

Rudd: Yeah, it’s with David, the working title is “Little Big Men”, I don’t think that that’ll be the actual title of the movie, I don’t think the title has really been decided.

Question: I remember that film being set up at first Luke Greenfield was going to direct and it went through several permutations.

Rudd: It went through several, yeah, a lot, I think even before Luke Greenfield was involved, and then it was several writers and then I wrote a version of it, and then David came on and we worked on a version of it together, and so it was kind of constantly changing and yet actually I think at the end of the day it turned out pretty well, we had a screening of it, and seen where it’s at right now, I think everyone feels pretty good about it, so hopefully it’ll work out.