Hollwyood actor Paul Rudd has gone viral with a public service announcement urging fellow ‘young people’ to wear a face mask.
We all know that wearing face masks has become a point of contention. Some people don’t like the look of them. Some people say they can’t breath wearing them. Lucky, then, that Ant Man is here to help.
Paul Rudd has teamed up with the governor of New York Andrew Cuomo to encourage younger people to wear a face mask and stop the spread of COVID-19.
“Apparently a lot of COVID is transmitted by us Millennials,” Rudd said. “So Cuomo’s like, ‘You gotta help, what are you like 26?’ And I didn’t correct him.”
“So fam, let’s real talk. Masks? They’re totally beast!”
“So slide that into your DMs and Twitch it!” Rudd says, before playing a short solo on a double necked guitar.
Rudd then dropped a series of “young person” key words from the 1980s through to today, including chatting to Billie Eilish on the phone, telling her he “stans” her, dancing in a TikTok video, holding a football and resting a boom box on his shoulder.
The video was shared on Twitter this morning by Governor Cuomo and quickly went viral attracting more than 93,000 likes and 28,000 retweets.
Actor Elizabeth Banks retweeted the video, saying: “All the cool kids are doing it.”
Another called Rudd a “national treasure.”
The video is an extra attempt to stem the spread of COVID-19 in New York. Governor Cuomo said in a recent that the state of New York had kept its coronavirus infection rate below one per cent for 38 days straight, a remarkable number.
“There‘s no doubt that we’ve made progress, but this is not over yet,” Governor Cuomo said.
“By staying New York Tough, we‘ll get through this together.”
Check out ‘young person’ Paul Rudd’s PSA:
