“All of a sudden kids recognised me!”

Paul Rudd is Scott Lang / Ant-Man

How did you feel about returning to the character of Scott?

I was happy to do the role… I don’t think I questioned it as much [on] this movie.

How do we find Scott at the beginning of Ant-Man And The Wasp?

I have certainly reconnected my daughter and family. the thing that makes it a little trickier is we start the movie and I’m under house arrest… I am not living a very heroic life, I’ve been the last couple years in my house and Cassie will come over and we have play dates.

What about your relationship with Hope as the Wasp?

I think that we are discovering our strengths as a team working together. When we start off we’re not on the best of terms because of what I put them through by going to germany [in Captain America: Civil War]. So they’ve been trying to kind of lay low and I’ve made their lives harder because people are aware of them now. throughout the course of the film we’re starting to click and get cool with each other.

Was there any difference to your career that you noticed starring in Ant-Man?

I work with a children’s charity every year… this children’s hospital in Kansas City, where I grew up. I would always, like, talk to the kids but none of them really knew who I was and then all of a sudden with Ant-Man, I noticed kids recognised me! I also have kids myself, so if I go to their school, the other kids… they’ve seen me too! James Mottram