Paul Rudd is returning to NBC’s Parks and Recreation for the final season. The Marvel Ant-Man star will be reprising his role as the air the Sweetums empire Bobby Newport. Rudd isn’t the only cast member returning. Rob Lowe and Rashida Jones are set to come back for the final season. Mad Men’s Jon Hamm may even make a return, reprising his cameo appearance from the last episode as the incompetent Ed.
Executive producer Michael Schur spoke to Entertainment Weekly about Paul Rudd’s return casting:
“He’s the world’s nicest human being--and the funniest. We made a list of all the people that we wanted to have back and he was high on the list, so we managed to snag him.”
Schur previously spoke to Entertainment Weekly about Jon Hamm reprising his role as Ed, detailing how the Hamm cameo came to be:
“When we conceived of this scene -- this kind of crazy, chaotic 60-second coda to the year-- I felt pretty strongly that one of the fun things would be to see someone really famous and to have them get fired immediately. I think Hamm may have actually improvised the line ‘It’s been a great three years.’ He either improvised it or we worked it out on the floor. But it just made us laugh that you would say: “Oh my God, we just missed three years of Jon Hamm!” And he made the decision, which I thought was so funny, to play the entire thing with a smile on his face. It was not the way it was conceived at all, and it’s so much funnier that he’s just like, ‘Yup! Totally understand. Goodbye!’”
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