Paul Rudd Says His Son Thought He Worked In A Movie Theater Until Age 15

Paul Rudd recently shared a funny and interesting tidbit about his son’s understanding of what he does for a living.

The Ant-Man actor revealed that he let his son Jack fully believe for roughly a decade that he was a stellar movie theater employee rather than a beloved actor who has starred in some of the biggest blockbusters of all time.

“I’m not gonna sit my kids down when they’re 3 and say, ‘You know, I’ve got some DVDs to show you,'” he joked in a preview clip from this weekend’s Sunday Today With Willie Geist segment. “I didn’t really explain what I did.”

According to Rudd, the disconnect all began when his son was “about 4 or 5” and went to the theater to see a movie with his friends. “We were all going, and there was a movie poster that I was on that was in the lobby,” he explained. “So they all just thought that I worked at the movie theater, which I thought was very cute.”

Rudd said it took a few more years for his eldest son to finally catch on that his dad wasn’t just Employee of the Month at their local cinema: “I think when he was 15, he finally put it all together.”

But to his son’s credit, Rudd added, he kind of fed into the confusion. “I never corrected him,” he said. In fact, he jokingly noted that he’d often tell him, “I work at the AMC Lowes.”

Rudd also has a daughter named Darby and the actor says both her and Jack aren’t too dazzled by his storied career or his frequent escapades within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

“I think I’m Dad more than I’m Ant-Man, or in the MCU,” Rudd told PEOPLE earlier this week. “They don’t care, nor should they.”