What to Do Before You Turn 40 - Men's Health News

Paul Rudd and Chris O'Dowd in This Is 40

It?s often said that life is over at 40, which gives actor Chris O?Dowd exactly 7 years to carpe diem.

The 33-year-old O?Dowd burst into public consciousness as the Irish cop in the 2011 smash Bridesmaids, and brings a wit both breezy and jagged to everything he does. In This Is 40,?a hilarious and heartbreaking look at a married couple (in theaters today), that means spending a lot of time in a swimming pool, trying to seduce Megan Fox. Enjoy your 30s while they last, buster.

Here, O?Dowd offers his musings on mustaches, marriage, and the one goal he must meet before turning the big four-o. Use his advice for successfully navigating your own rocky path to middle age. (Want more great guy wisdom from the stars? Check out Men?s Health Celebrity Fitness.)

Men?s Health:?How hard is it to pretend you?re hot for Megan Fox?

Chris O?Dowd: It?s tricky, you know. Acting is hard. You?ve just got to inhabit a different person and imagine: what would it be like to find Megan Fox attractive? Really go outside your comfort zone to the depths of a human being you can barely even recognize. That?s training, man. That?s not even me.

Men?s Health:?She makes fun of your mustache in the movie, so I?ve gotta ask: what?s with the mustache? Is it sincere? Is it ironic? We?re in an age where, paraphrasing Freud, a mustache ain?t necessarily a mustache.

Chris O?Dowd: There has been much made of ironic mustaches lately, which must make it an important topic in our otherwise perfect world. Hipsters are weird people. I don?t really understand them myself. I hate that I?m 33 and I feel too old to converse with a man who has an ironic mustache. There are all of these little boys running around with Monopoly man mustaches, and it?s just weird. I don?t know what they?re thinking. There are daddy issues going on, particularly if your daddy is Kris Kristofferson. There may simply be a lot of Three Men and a Baby fans out there in Brooklyn and Silverlake, paying homage to Tom Selleck.

Men?s Health:?So what about your mustache in This Is 40?

Chris O?Dowd: I think my character is trying to be cool and hipster-ish, which is why he has that mustache and which is where a lot of the funny comes from and why he?s actually kind of a sad human being. Honestly, I was shooting another film at the same time, a piece set in the 1960s, and I had to have the mustache for that movie. So I simultaneously had a sincere and an ironic mustache. Because that?s the kind of range my upper lip has.

Men?s Health:?The film deals pretty unflinchingly with marital discord, sexual dysfunction, health issues. Forty sounds pretty terrible, doesn?t it? What do you need to accomplish before hitting that fateful birthday?

Chris O?Dowd: Before I hit 40, I?ve gotta get in that threesome with the nuns. And that?s it. That?s my life plan. That?s all I need. I?m not an ambitious man.

Men?s Health:?Simple stuff. And then comes 40.

Chris O?Dowd: I?ve got nervous breakdowns and divorce and unemployment all ahead of me. Which I?m really looking forward to. You know the way that they say all babies are female for a certain time before the fetus develops and it becomes a boy or a girl? I think all men are happy for a certain time?before they meet women. You get a shit-load of pain ahead when you notice women. I guess all that?s compounded when you turn 40.

Men?s Health:?Comics used to have a bad reputation as miserable people, but this new crop of funny folks?you, Steve Carell, Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Ed Helms?you?re all so nice and seemingly well-adjusted. What gives?

Chris O?Dowd: You?re right. Comedians do have that reputation of being depressives, and that?s not this group of people making comedies today. Maybe part of that is because in a lot of these movies, we?re not really stand-ups, we?re actors who are maybe a little funny. Now actors, we have our own set of psychological issues. Our narcissism gets in the way of our depression. It hits you first. It just overpowers you.

Men?s Health: Since?Bridesmaids, life just hasn?t stopped for you. You?re bound and determined to pack as much good stuff into your 30s as possible, right?

Chris O?Dowd: It?s been pretty surreal. I?m working so much at the moment though, that it hasn?t really hit me. I don?t have time to stop and think about the success. Once I throw a couple of real stinkers into the mainstream and stop getting employed so well and often, I?ll have the time to go, ?Oh, I had it good for a while, didn?t I?? I?m looking forward to that. I?ll have a nervous breakdown and kill someone with a golf putter. That?s something else I?ve always wanted to do. Nuns and golf clubs.

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