http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1884826,00.html
Paul Rudd doesn’t seem like a leading man until you remember that some men star in movies with other men. Bob Hope didn’t beat up criminals or woo ladies, and likewise, Rudd, who at 5 ft. 10 somehow projects 5 ft. 6, has found the perfect expression of his charming, nonthreatening slyness in the buddy comedy. After playing a lot of leading men’s friends (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up) and nice guys embraced by leading women after they’ve come to their senses (Friends, Clueless), Rudd has graduated to playing the lead. He did it in last year’s Role Models with Seann William Scott, and he’s doing it again in I Love You, Man with Jason Segel, out March 20, in which he plays a guy who has been so focused on his girlfriends that he has no male friends. So his fiancée sends him out in search of a best man, which Rudd approaches with the earnestness of a man oddly comfortable being on the gayest journey ever.
But I wasn’t buying the premise: that a straight adult male can successfully troll for straight adult male friends. Men are genetically programmed to shed friends once they get married, not add them. “If my dad had social engagements, it was my mom who arranged them,” Rudd says. “But I never had a problem making friends.” So, sitting in a booth at the Half King bar in New York City, two beers down, we decide to see if we can pull it off. (See the Top 10 Movie Bromances.)