Actor, comedian and eternally youthful, Paul Rudd, also happens to be a big fan of masks. So much so, that the 51-year-old filmed a public service announcement urging “us millennials” to wear masks in public to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Dressed in a hoodie and accessorized with a NY baseball cap, headphones and skateboard, Rudd explained why wearing a mask is important, just like a millennial would - at least, according to Rudd.
“A few days ago, I was talking on the iPhone with my homie, Gov. Cuomo,” Rudd said of how the PSA came to be. “And he’s just going off about how us millennials need to wear masks because, get this, apparently a lot of Covid is transmitted by us millennials.”
While Rudd might not actually be a millennial, the actor has mystified social media over the years for seemingly not aging.
Even Gov. Cuomo (or Cuomes as Rudd called him) was confused about his real age.
“So Cuomes asks me, he’s like, ‘Paul, you’ve got to help. What are you, like, 26?’ And I didn't correct him,” Rudd said in his PSA. “So fam, let’s real-talk. Masks, they’re totally beast. So, slide that into your DMs and Twitch it,” he continued.
“Yass queens like ourselves, we want to go to bars, we want to drink, hookup, do our TikToks - I get it,” Rudd added. He even enlisted the help of another mask-wearing celebrity when he shared a clip of his (totally real) phone call with “bae,” Billie Eilish.
After making up his own TikTok dance and a rap about wearing a mask, Rudd got frustrated. “Just wear a mask. It’s easy, it’s simple,” he shouted.
“Please, it’s not hard, people are dying. Hundreds of thousands of people are dying, and it’s preventable. I shouldn’t have to make it fun, it’s science.”
So for anyone who won’t listen to “Cuomes,” maybe watching Rudd’s PSA will finally convince you to wear a mask.
