Paul Rudd has been crowned PEOPLE‘s Sexiest Man Alive.
The actor was taken aback by the news.
In an interview with the publication, Paul reflects on his new title.
“I do have an awareness, enough to know that when people hear that I’d be picked for this, they would say, ‘What?’” he says.
“This is not false humility. There are so many people that should get this before me.”
He shared that his wife was the first person to know and that she was “stupefied”.
“But you know she was very sweet about it. After some giggling and shock, she said ‘Oh, they got it right.’ And that was very sweet. She was probably not telling the truth, but what’s she going to say?”
Paul expects his friends to give him “so much grief”, but he is going to lean into his new title.
“I mean I’m going to lean into it hard. I’m going to own this. I’m not going to try to be like ‘Oh, I’m so modest.’ I’m getting business cards made. But all of my friends will destroy me and I expect them to. And that’s why they’re my friends.”
Rudd jokes that perhaps now he will be attending some “sexy dinners” with his Sexiest Man Alive predecessors.
“I’m hoping now that I’ll finally be invited to some of those sexy dinners with Clooney and Pitt and B Jordan,” he said.
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