PUAL RUDD- SEXIEST MAN 2021
Paul Rudd is having a hard time accepting his new title of PEOPLE's 2021 Sexiest Man Alive . The actor, 52, has heard it all — kind, self-deprecating, affable, hardworking, all labels he's embraced to some degree. But sexy ? That's a little outside his wheelhouse. "I do have an awareness, enough to know that when people hear that I'd be picked for this, they would say, ' What ?' " the actor tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story. "This is not false humility. There are so many people that should get this before me." Such humble deflection — coupled with those gorgeous green eyes and easy grin — is exactly why audiences have fallen in love with Rudd over the years. This month alone he's reteaming with Will Ferrell for the new Apple TV+ series The Shrink Next Door and taking on one of Hollywood's most treasured franchises with Ghostbusters: Afterlife . Despite his rise to leading man superstardom, Rudd insists he's most happy...