Rudd on role playing

There are some pretty interesting fantasy faux-battle scenes in Paul Rudd's latest flick, Role Models. Rudd's character gets "big-brothered" up with a kid (McLovin from Superbad) who defines dweeb to a T. Not only does he walk around in a cape, he partakes in a reenactment society-of-sorts and ends up dragging Rudd into it.

"These groups really exist," Rudd told parade.com. "They're 'LARPs' which stands for Live Action Role Playing. We really took it as seriously as they do, even though everyone fights with fake weapons like paper swords. I worked with the stunt coordinator who had trained Matt Damon for The Bourne Identity to get the right moves. Most of the battle scenes were played for laughs, but we wanted them to be like Braveheart. That kind of stuff was never my thing growing up. I was hooked on LEGO."

If you're intrigued by these people running around in medieval and regal paraphanalia while hitting each other with nerf-like weapons, you should check out the documentary Darkon which provides a more in depth look.