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Paul Rudd Says Smartphones Are 'Facilitating Our Own Destruction'

Actor Paul Rudd says he stopped taking his smartphone to film sets because he finds them addictive and harmful to real human connection.

Paul Rudd stopped bringing his smartphone to film sets because he's 'addicted like everybody else.'

The Long Sip
What happened

Paul Rudd spoke at the New York Film Festival premiere of A Statement about banning his phone from film sets for some time now.

The detail

Director Tom McCarthy enforced a strict no-phones policy on set, which Rudd said made the cast closer and filming feel more like a play.

And then

Co-star Amy Ryan compared ditching the phone to quitting sugar, saying within days you stop missing it and the work becomes much richer.

Full story at Variety

What readers are saying

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Rudd mentioned that McCarthy kept a strict no phones policy which made the 1980 set feel like a play and forced everyone to actually talk during breaks. That matches what Amy Ryan said about it being like quitting sugar and the difference showing up in three days. The cast ended up connecting over the scenes instead of notifications which seems like a practical way to cut the addiction he described.
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