Paul Rudd: 'I went through major Adam Ant phase'

Paul Rudd has confessed that he went through an "Adam Ant phase" as a teenager.

The Our Idiot Brother star told Grantland.com that he tried to emulate Ant's eccentric appearance as a youth but was often stopped from changing his look too much by his parents.

"Puberty hit me like a Mack truck, and my hair went from straight to curly overnight. But it was an easier pill to swallow because Adam Ant had curly hair. I used to ask my mum to try and shave my head on the sides to give me a receding hairline because Adam Ant had one," Rudd recalled.

"I didn't know what a receding hairline was. I just thought he looked cool. She said, 'Absolutely not,' but I was used to that. She also shot me down when I asked if I could bleach just the top of my head like Howard Jones. Any other kid would've been like, 'F**k you, mum! I'm bleaching my hair.' I was too nice."

Rudd went on to say that while he was initially thwarted in his attempts to copy his favourite rock stars, he eventually went for it anyway.

"I tried to make her an accomplice to the crime. She wouldn't let me grow a rat tail when I wanted. Or have a receding hairline like Adam Ant. It wasn't until I was 18 years old - able to register to vote, and by and large considered an adult - that I decided to do what I really wanted and no Mum or Dad was going to stop me," he said.

Watch Paul Rudd in the trailer for Our Idiot Brother below: