Every time Rudd appears on one of O'Brien's shows, he pretends to introduce a clip from the project he's promoting but instead shares. O'Brien explained that the clip shows "a boy in a wheelchair going down a hill, going off a cliff and falling into the water and then a badly animated alien popping up."
"I remember watching it, kind of stumbling across it on TV, and there's a scene where the alien raids this kid's house — kind of exactly likedid — and then he goes out and he's looking for what I guess he assumes is an alien or something that was in his house and then the alien is up in the tree looking at him," Rudd recapped. "And then this Peter Cetera-sounding song about best friends kicks in and it's totally unearned. They don't even know each other.
He explained that the premise of the 1999 film was that all babies knew "the secrets of the universe and can talk to one another before they turn two, where they forget it and as they start to talk, it goes away." He added, "Love the idea. Don't love the movie."
Who would've thought.
ain't no joke like a worn out joke.
best running gag ever
More importantly: why can’t I find a copy of The Shape of Things (2003) starring him and Rachel Weisz?
Because he's a delightful, charming man.
Sometimes we don’t need to know why