Paul Rudd Reveals He Was Arrested Twice As a Teenager

This is Paul Rudd in trouble with the law. 

The This Is 40 actor admitted he has had some run-ins with the law, detailing the two separate occasions that occurred before he became a household name. 

“One time I was in a car, I was riding shotgun and my friend Mike was driving and we had water guns and there was a car next to us—our friends,” he told Benny Blanco and Lil Dicky on the May 19 episode of their Friends Keep Secrets podcast. “They had them, too. We were just having a water gun fight.”

Though the then-16-year-old and his pals “were just being rascals,” the law enforcement officer who pulled them over didn’t quite see it that way.

“Mike pulls over and he has a gun trained on us,” Paul explained of the cop. “And he comes walking around the side and he says, ‘Alright, boy. Slowly, real slowly, hand over that water gun. And you better pray it’s a water gun.’”

“And he has a gun on me,” the Ant-Man star stressed. “I’m like 16.”