WATCH: 'Ant-Man' actor crawls in to support bullied teenager
Everyone needs a superhero in their lives!
'Ant-Man' actor Paul Rudd is not only a hero on the big screen, but he's an even bigger hero off it.
Rudd decided to Facetime a school learner who had been bullied.
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The video is from the Independent and show Rudd and the boy who had been bulled, Brody Ridder, conversing.
Ridder, who is 12, had been bullied throughout the school year. When he came back from school with his yearbook, it only showed four signatures.
The two are from his teachers and the others are from his classmates. Ridder had written on the book himself saying, "Hope you make some more friends".
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His mother, Cassandra Ridder, had reached her breaking point. She reached out on social media to alert parents about how the pressures of bullying had taken its toll on her son.
"Parents need to teach their children kindness, open up that dialogue. And if you see your child being mean to somebody else, talk to them about how that could possibly make them feel," says Cassandra.
As soon as Cassandra posted Facebook, many people poured in to support her, including Rudd. In his attempt to reach out to Brody, Paul hand wrote to him and gave him his 'Ant-Man' helmet - which he signed himself.
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