“Ant-Man and the Wasp” officially flies into theaters on July 6. Walt Disney’s Marvel Studios movie, which stars actor Paul Rudd as Scott Lang (a.k.a., Ant-Man), is expected to haul in more than $75 million in North American ticket sales over its opening weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This movie marks Rudd’s latest turn as the size-shifting superhero, following 2015’s “Ant-Man”, which grossed $519 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo. He also had a supporting role in 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War,” which took in more than $1.1 billion globally.

At 49, Rudd's career also includes notable roles in movies like 1995’s “Clueless,” 2001’s “Wet Hot American Summer” and 2004’s “Anchorman.” But before Rudd found success in Hollywood, he worked a variety of odd jobs, including one that he calls “the weirdest” job he’s ever had: glazing hams in his hometown of Kansas City, Kansas. Some of Rudd’s earliest jobs skewed a bit more on the traditional side: delivering newspapers, bagging groceries, he told IMDB in 2015. Though at one point, before his acting career took off in the early 1990s, Rudd worked as a DJ at a Bat Mitzvah. But the job that really sticks out in Rudd’s mind was one he took after he graduated from the University of Kansas with a theater degree in 1992. To save money for a move to Los Angeles (to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Rudd took a job at the Holiday Ham Company in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, where he grew up. “I glazed hams,” Rudd said in a 2015 interview on ABC’s "Live! With Kelly and Michael." He described the process, saying it involved sifting a lot of sugar from a tub onto a heated ham and then using a propane torch to melt the sugar into a glaze. “It was like a rhythm,” Rudd said. “It was one of the weirder jobs I’ve ever had,” he said.

The “weird” job definitely did not give Rudd any pause about pursuing his acting dreams. “[It] taught me that I don’t want to glaze hams for a living,” he told CBS’ “Sunday Morning” in June. “It was really crappy. It’s a serious process. It’s way more intense than I thought it would be,” Rudd said in a 2008 interview with the University of Kansas’ alumni magazine. “There were big torches that came down from the ceiling, and I had to put on protective gear and sprinkle sugar on top of the ham. It looked like I was working in a laboratory. And then I reeked of ham every day.” As if the smell wasn't enough, Rudd also caught a whiff of mockery from his friends over the gig. “My friends would make fun of me,” Rudd told IMDB. “They used to call me ‘Paul Ham Glazer,’ like Paul Michael Glaser [the actor] from ‘Starsky & Hutch.’”