Actors rise to the challenge of comedy I Love You, Man

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The 2009 American comedy film I Love You, Man stars Paul Rudd and Jason Segel. Other major talent in the film are Rashida Jones, J. K. Simmons, Jane Curtin, Jaime Pressly and Andy Samberg.

This film’s plot involves the main character, Peter, desperately finding guy friends, especially due to needing one to be his best man at his wedding. There are many attempts to “accumulate” guy friends, and most end tragically.

Paul Rudd (Peter) is an American actor and screenwriter. He made his breakout performance in the 1995 film Clueless. From 1995-present he has appeared in a variety of films, television series and an audio book recording.

Jane Therese Curtin (Joyce) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress and comedienne. Curtin decided to pursue comedy as a career and dropped out of college in 1968 to join a comedy group, “The Proposition” performing with them until 1972. She starred in such hits as The Coneheads, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines and Saturday Night Live.

Rashida Jones (Zooey) is an American actress, model and musician. She is best known for her roles in Boston Public, The Office and Unhitched. She is cast for the upcoming series Parks & Recreation.

Jason Segel (Sydney) is an American television and film actor and screenwriter. Segel had hoped to be an actor during his young school days and acted in local theatre productions at Palisades Playhouse.

Louis “Lou” Jude Ferrigno (as himself) is an American bodybuilder and actor. He has appeared in TV shows and movies, some of which he was The Hulk in The Incredible Hulk, Pumping Iron, Sinbad of the Seven Seas, Hercules and in the sitcom The King of Queens.

Ferrigno started weight training at age 13 and was active in the competition circuit for many years. In 1977 he signed up with Universal Sudios for the co-starring role, opposite Bill Bixby, as The Hulk, in The Incredible Hulk. He played that role until 1982, later reuniting with Bixby to co-star in three The Incredible Hulk TV movies.

In the early 1990s Ferrigno returned to bodybuilding, competing for the 1992 and 1993 Mr. Olympia titles, finishing 12th and 10th respectively. In 1994 he placed 2nd in the Masters Olympia, after which he retired from competition.

Ferrigno made a cameo appearance in the 2003 film Hulk as a security guard. He has also done many guest appearances, advertisements and has been the Hulk’s voice in animated adaptations. Again he appeared as a security guard in 2008’s The Incredible Hulk as well as voicing the Hulk again, after being publicly offered at the 2008 New York Comic Con by The Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier.

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