The Hollywood actor has an affiliation with the Titanic. His late father Michael was a Titanic historian, who used to shared so many stories with his son about the liner when he was growing up.
“Paul’s family have been regular visitors to Cobh in the past, as Paul’s dad (the late Michael Rudd) had a great passion for history and the Titanic story”, the museum wrote via social media. “As the last port of call, Cobh has a unique and emotive link to the story and we hope the Rudd family enjoyed our tour and our stories”.
“We had a few Antman fans at the experience today and thank you to Paul for being so gracious to his enthusiastic young fans (and the not so young fans!)”.
A few years ago, Paul Rudd had revealed that he also auditioned for the role of Jack Dawson in the 1997 blockbuster Titanic.
The role was eventually filled by Leonardo Di Caprio. Rudd admitted that he spent the time speaking about the history of the famous ship which he learned from his father, instead of acting out the lines from the script.
“I auditioned for Titanic", Rudd said. I wanted to get the part because my dad was a Titanic historian. He used to go all over the world talking about the Titanic”.
He added, “I went in there talking about what steel they used and where it was built and they were like, ‘None of this matters'”.
Rudd did joked that it did not matter that he failed to land the role, as "the guy that got is was pretty good”.
