Tight-Lipped Paul Rudd Jokes About His Tiny Director’s Chair in the Avengers: Doomsday Reveal: 'There's Still the Part of Me That's Like, It's a Little Emasculating'

Paul Rudd was, arsenic you’d expect, asked astir Avengers: Doomsday successful a caller interrogation pursuing confirmation of the Marvel movie’s cast, but helium remained tight-lipped.

Appearing connected The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the Ant-Man histrion was asked astir the Marvel livestream that dilatory revealed chairs with Avengers: Doomsday histrion names connected them. The video confirmed an further 26 actors acceptable to look successful the superhero mash-up alongside Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom. Rudd’s chair, successful keeping with his ace tiny superhero role, was tiny successful examination to each the different chairs.

Paul Rudd's Ant-Man due seat confirmed his relation successful Avengers: Doomsday.

“I saw that announcement. I did,” Rudd said successful the interview, intelligibly trying desperately to not springiness thing distant oregon connection immoderate clues that mightiness bring the Marvel heavies knocking connected his door.

And astir that tiny chair, Fallon began: “I conjecture due to the fact that you’re…

“Because I’m Ant-Man?”

“Yes.”

“I anticipation so.”

Rudd past went connected to deflect the enactment of questioning with emblematic humor.

“I thought, ‘oh that’s clever, yes I’m Ant-Man.’ But there’s inactive the portion of maine that’s like, it’s a small emasculating to person a small tiny chair. But astatine least, finally, 1 that volition really acceptable maine erstwhile I beryllium down.”

Fallon past asked straight if Rudd could archer him thing astir Avengers: Doomsday astatine all. Rudd’s reply was... well, it was nothing.

“There is thing that I tin archer you,” helium said, earlier joking astir the secrecy surrounding the movie and Marvel projects generally. Rudd said that keeping secrets wherever they should beryllium for “a large movie” similar Avengers: Doomsday is simply a superior business, dissimilar “military secrets” oregon “some benignant of coordinated attack.”

It’s a amusive exchange, but 1 each the actors whose names appeared successful Marvel’s livestream volition present look whenever they bash interviews to beforehand their projects. Take the formed of Thunderbolts, for example. Now they’re (pretty overmuch all) confirmed to look successful Avengers: Doomsday, they’ll beryllium asked relentlessly astir the movie portion retired connected the property tour.

In the lack of much accusation from Marvel itself, MCU fans person been searching the seat livestream for hints and Easter eggs, and judge they mightiness person recovered 1 oregon two.

Most person present moved connected from the video to debating what the formed announcement means for Avengers: Doomsday itsel. Marvel amazed galore by announcing a fig of returning stars from Fox’s X-Men films. Fox X-Men veterans Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, and James Marsden are each present confirmed to look successful Avengers: Doomsday. Grammer famously played Beast successful the Fox X-Men franchise earlier making his MCU debut via The Marvels' post-credits scene.

Stewart played Charles Xavier/Professor X successful the X-Men films earlier appearing concisely successful the MCU via Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness arsenic a subordinate of the Illuminati. McKellen, who played Magneto, has yet to look successful the MCU. Neither has Cumming, who played Nightcrawler, Romijn, who played Mystique, nor Marsden, who played Cyclops.

Even Channing Tatum gets to play Gambit again aft his prima crook successful Deadpool & Wolverine. It begs the question: is Avengers: Doomsday secretly an Avengers vs. X-Men movie?

Earlier this month, co-directors the Russo brothers said they spot Avengers 5 and 6 arsenic a “new beginning” that volition laic the instauration for immoderate comes adjacent successful Phase 7 of the MCU.

“The lone happening I’ll accidental astir the movie is this: we emotion villains who deliberation they’re the heroes of their ain stories,” Joe Russo said. “That’s erstwhile they go three-dimensional and they go much interesting. When you person an histrion similar Robert Downey, you person to make a three-dimensional, good shaped quality for the audience. That’s wherever a batch of our absorption is going.”

Avengers: Doomsday is presently acceptable to get successful theaters connected May 1, 2026, and Secret Wars arrives astir a twelvemonth aboriginal successful May 2027. Before then, Thunderbolts* comes retired successful May 2025, TV amusement Ironheart is retired successful June, and Phase 6 kicks disconnected with The Fantastic Four: First Steps successful July.

In October, Marvel Studios added 3 untitled movie projects to its 2028 merchandise schedule: February 18, 2028; May 5, 2028; and November 10, 2028. It seems progressively apt 1 of these movies is X-Men.

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