Celebrity Paul Rudd says his son thought he worked in a movie theater for years: 'I never corrected him' The Ant-Man star's son was in his teens when he "finally put it all together." By Emlyn Travis Emlyn Travis Emlyn Travis is a news writer at Entertainment Weekly with over five years of experience covering the latest in entertainment. A proud Kingston University alum, Emlyn has written about music, fandom, film, television, and awards for multiple outlets including MTV News, Teen Vogue, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Paper Magazine, Dazed, and NME. She joined EW in August 2022. EW's editorial guidelines Published on February 10, 2023 11:03AM EST We come to this place for magic. We come to AMC Theaters to laugh, to cry, to care. And if you're Paul Rudd's son, to… randomly see a poster of your dad? The Ant-Man actor has revealed that he let his son Jack fully believe for roughly a decade that he was a stellar movie theater employee rather than, you know, a beloved actor who has starred in some of the biggest blockbusters of all time. "I'm not gonna sit my kids down when they're 3 and say, 'You know, I've got some DVDs to show you,'" he joked in a preview clip from this weekend's Sunday Today With Willie Geist segment. "I didn't really explain what I did." Paul Rudd said his son thought he worked at a movie theater for years. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic According to Rudd, the disconnect all began when his son was "about 4 or 5" and went to the theater to see a movie with his friends. "We were all going, and there was a movie poster that I was on that was in the lobby," he explained. "So they all just thought that I worked at the movie theater, which I thought was very cute." Rudd said it took a few more years for his eldest son to finally catch on that his dad wasn't just Employee of the Month at their local cinema: "I think when he was 15, he finally put it all together." But to his son's credit, Rudd added, he kind of fed into the confusion. "I never corrected him," he said. In fact, he jokingly noted that he'd often tell him, "I work at the AMC Lowes." Perhaps that's why Rudd's children (he also has a daughter named Darby) aren't too dazzled by his storied career or his frequent escapades within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. "I think I'm Dad more than I'm Ant-Man, or in the MCU," Rudd told PEOPLE earlier this week. "They don't care, nor should they." Want more movie news? Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free newsletter to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more. Related content: Paul Rudd calls working on Only Murders In the Building season 3 the 'Mount Rushmore' of comedy Paul Rudd checks in to season 3 of Only Murders in the Building Watch Lizzo mistake a Late Night writer for Paul Rudd while day drinking with Seth Meyers