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Paul Ruddnow holds the title ofPEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive 2021, but if you ask his wife, someone else may have been more deserving of the role.
Rudd, 52, who was named this year’s Sexiest Man Alive last week, opened up about receiving the honor in an interview withExtraon Tuesday. The actor has been married to his wife, producer Julie Yaeger, since 2003, but Rudd quipped that after all that time together, Yaeger, 53, still wouldn’t have voted for him if she had the chance to cast her ballot for Sexiest Man Alive.
“No, she would have voted forKeanu Reeves,” he toldExtra, joking, “Come on, he’s Keanu, I’d vote for him.”
Rudd and Reeves, 57, previously worked together on the 2016 short filmAnyone Can Quantum. While they did not appear on screen together, Reeves narrated the project, while Rudd faced off against Stephen Hawking in a game of chess.
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When Rudd was first named Sexiest Man Alive, he told PEOPLE, “I do have an awareness, enough to know that when people hear that I’d be picked for this, they would say, ‘What?’ This is not false humility. There are so many people that should get this before me.”
“When I think about myself, I think of myself as a husband and a father, like I’m that,” he said. “I just hang out with my family when I’m not working. That’s what I kind of like the most.”
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TheAnt-Manstar also spilled about Yaeger’s initial reaction to his title, describing her as “stupefied,” when she first heard the news.
“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,” he said. “She was probably not telling the truth, but what’s she going to say?”
source: people.com
