Paul Rudd

David Jays follows the transformation of the man Paul Rudd plays in The Shape of Things through prosthetics and costume, and finds an irony sitting in it: the slimmer and smarter the man grows, the more he turns into the familiar, appealing Paul Rudd. The destination of the make-up is the performer's own known image. Jays supplies one further detail, that the man gives up fingernails which had looked like raw meat for years. The same piece recalls an older job of his with the same director, in which the character he played justified a homophobic beating as a defence of Eden, where now the same performer takes on Adam.