When I first saw Bridesmaids, I wasn’t super-crazy in love with the film. I thought there were some funny parts, but it was a surprisingly bittersweet “comedy”. I did, however, come out of the film completely in love with Irish actor Chris O’Dowd. O’Dowd played Kristen Wiig’s love interest in the film, and Bridesmaids was many Americans’ first introduction to O’Dowd, who is a popular comedian and actor in Ireland and the UK. Anyway, I’ve never devoted a post to Chris before, and he’s got a new interview with Vulture which is cracking me up, so I thought, “Why not?” He’s promoting his new film, Friends With Kids, in which he plays Maya Rudolph’s love interest/husband. You can read the full Vulture interview here, and here are some highlights:

Vulture: You play a guy in a nearly sexless marriage [in Friends With Kids]. But at least you’re a sweet couple?
O’Dowd: Thanks! I love it because I buy it, and it feels very familiar to people I know. Also, it’s okay: You don’t have to f–k all the time to have a great relationship. [Laughs.]

I love that you’re promoting this movie right around the time you got engaged.
Oh, yeah. I’m really looking forward to having less and less sex. That’s really what I’m looking forward to. I don’t like to be too happy.

Because you’re a comedian.
Because I’m a Catholic.

I’m glad the word cougar didn’t make it into the script in the scene where you and Maya talk about her being the older woman. I hate the word cougar.
I have a friend who is embroiled in this cougar thing at the moment. It’s bizarre. She’s going out with a guy in a boy band. But cougar wouldn’t be in my wheelhouse of words.

How do you feel being called an up-and-comer even though you did The IT Crowd and you’ve actually been working for a long time?
I don’t mind it. I guess it’s better than being a down-and-goner. F–k it.

Has Hollywood surprised you at all?
It’s been a piece of piss. It’s been surprisingly inclusive.

You’re 32, which puts you right in the sweet spot for what the movie is about. Are your friends starting to have kids?
All of ‘em. All of ‘em are f–king doing it behind my back, almost selfishly; not taking our friendship into consideration and just going off and ruining their lives by having children. In the last year, three of my friends have done it. I just don’t know them anymore. No — it’s good; obviously, it’s great. But I don’t see them as much, and whenever I do I have to hang out with this little, flabby-skinned s–t who’s terrible at drinking games.

Wait, kids have flabby skin? Or are you talking about the mothers?
The kids! F–k them.

So I guess you don’t show up at many 1-year-old birthday parties?
Not at all. That’s not a party. Just because it’s a birthday doesn’t mean you can call it a party. It’s not a party if there are 11-month-olds at it.

[From Vulture]

Wait, he’s only 32??! Um, I thought he was older, I really did. What is it about Irishmen these days – they’re damned attractive, but they always look older than their ages? First Michael Fassbender (who is only two years older than Chris), and now this. Have I just been warped by Hollywood pretty boys and how they always look much younger than their years?

As for Chris’s talk about babies and marriage and relationships – he’s joking. For the most part. You know as soon as he marries his fiancée Dawn Porter, she’ll be knocked up.

Oh, what’s that? Chris O’Dowd and Michael Fassbender hung out together at the Irish Film Awards? BAM! Fassy’s not short, Chris is just really, really TALL.

Photos courtesy of WENN.