YYZ! Rush Featured In Paul Rudd’s ‘I Love You, Man’

Don’t you hate random (movie) sites that can be bothered call out the news in their interviews / have zero editorial skills / don’t even know what content they have? (i.e. “Interview with Paul Rudd on the set of “I Love You, Man,” i.e. “We Have No Clue What We’re Doing Even Though We Have Great Access To Actors/Directors, Etc.”)

We digress. We decided to read IESB.net for some reason (because we like to slog through long-winded interviews that go nowhere trolling for news that they have, but don’t know what to do with; not just music/movie news either; need an editor for pete’s sake?) and we came across this interview with actor Paul Rudd on the set of his upcoming comedy, “I Love You, Man,” which centers on a newly engaged, but fairly bff-challenged dude (The Rudd) who sets out to find the perfect “Best Man” for his wedding (the film also stars Jason Segel – who eventually becomes the bff – Jaime Pressly, Cara Gallo (!!) and the lovely Rashida Jones as his fiance). [ed. It’s like the Judd Apatow film that’s not a Judd Apatow film. But it’s exec-produced by Ivan Reitman]

As it turn out, Canadian mathematics and sciences/ environmental studies power rock trio, Rush will be featured in the movie in what sounds like a concert scene and apparently Rudd also plays some bass in the movie onstage (but not with the band; or something like that IESB is naturally short on details)

“[Rush are] in the movie and we didn’t have any scenes where I engaged with them, I was just a fan dancing in the show, but I got to meet them, and Jason [Segel] and I actually interviewed them and I was nervous and like, ‘How do you interview ‘Rush’?’ They seem also to be really a band that has shied away, they’ve really lived the words of ‘Limelight’, living in the limelight, it’s surreal and they can’t pretend that a stranger is a long waited friend, I just kept thinking that when I was trying to buddy up to them, but they were very funny and very friendly.”

And big fans of “Team America” evidently.

“I don’t know how the topic of ‘South Park’ and ‘Team America’ came up, [but when it did] they all went crazy and started talking, and quoting it, and it was just really weird to be exchanging ‘Team America’ quotes with Neil Peart.”

Lol. “I Love You, Man” is directed by Paul Hamburg (“Along Came Polly,” some “Undeclared” episodes, “Stella”) and is due in theaters January 2009. We love the Rudd, so we can’t wait.