{"id":244894,"date":"2026-06-08T01:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/paul-rudd-confesses-the-clueless-role-he-really-wanted\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T01:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:18:11","slug":"paul-rudd-confesses-the-clueless-role-he-really-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/paul-rudd-confesses-the-clueless-role-he-really-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Rudd confesses the &#8216;Clueless&#8217; role he really wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Paul Rudd confesses the \u2018Clueless\u2019 role he really wanted two decades later <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eTAeKbOqSv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/eTAeKbOqSv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rXqXOjOBRJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/rXqXOjOBRJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Page Six (@PageSix) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PageSix\/status\/2062545283083329769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the time, Rudd was more interested in playing Christian, who turns out to be gay.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I remember reading it, like, &#8216;Wait a minute, this is a gay character, who&#8217;s also the coolest character in the movie?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amy Heckerling let him audition for both the roles of Christian and Josh, and he got the role of Josh.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the stardom that Clueless brought, he was more excited to be on Broadway, starring in &#8220;The Last Night of Ballyhoo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PageSix\/status\/2062545283083329769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132442292.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Rudd confesses the \u2018Clueless\u2019 role he really wanted two decades later https:\/\/t.co\/eTAeKbOqSv pic.twitter.com\/rXqXOjOBRJ \u2014 Page Six (@PageSix) June 4, 2026 At the time, Rudd was more interested in playing Christian, who turns out to be gay. He said: &#8220;I remember reading it, like, &#8216;Wait a minute, this is a gay character, who&#8217;s also the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}