Michael B. Jordan’s reign as sexiest man alive has come to an end.
People magazine named Paul Rudd the Sexiest Man Alive for 2021 on Tuesday. The announcement was made by Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” which was a bold move after the host jokingly tried to steal the title last year.
“I’m hoping now that I’ll finally be invited to some of those sexy dinners with Clooney and Pitt and B Jordan,” the actor says of joining the ranks of Michael B. Jordan, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and more.
“I’m going to lean into it hard. I’m going to own this,” Rudd tells PEOPLE of being named the 2021 Sexiest Man Alive. “I do have an awareness, enough to know that when people hear that I’d be picked for this, they would say, ‘What?’ This is not false humility. There are so many people that should get this before me.”
Currently, Rudd appears in The Shrink Next Door on AppleTV+ opposite Will Ferrell and in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe will see him return in 2023 as Scott Lang, alias Ant-Man.