{"id":57768,"date":"2020-05-09T16:31:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T12:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nasimword.ir\/?p=57768"},"modified":"2020-05-09T16:31:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T12:01:17","slug":"mark-ruffalo-reveals-how-robert-downey-jr-convinced-him-to-play-the-hulk-in-the-first-avengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nasimword.ir\/?p=57768&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Mark Ruffalo Reveals How Robert Downey Jr. Convinced Him to Play the Hulk in the First Avengers"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to imagine anyone else playing Bruce Banner after\u00a0Mark Ruffalo<\/a>\u00a0took over the role \u2014 but it turns out that it took some\u00a0Iron Man<\/em>-level persuasion to convince Ruffalo, 52, to take the job.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0I Know This Much Is True<\/em>\u00a0star was hesitant to dive into the Marvel cinematic universe as the Hulk in 2012’s\u00a0The Avengers<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>directed by\u00a0Joss Whedon<\/a>, he shared with\u00a0Jimmy Fallon<\/a>\u00a0on Friday in a PEOPLE exclusive clip of\u00a0The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I was scared,” Ruffalo told the late-night host of being approached for the role. “I didn’t know what I could add to what I already thought had been done so well before me.” The last actor to play the comic book character was Edward Norton in 2008’s\u00a0The Incredible Hulk.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Among the reasons for his hesitation, Ruffalo told Fallon, was that he had “only been doing indie movies up ’til that point.”<\/p>\n

“So I was like, ‘I don’t know if I’m the right person for this.’ And Joss Whedon’s like, yeah, you are the right person,'” he remembered.<\/p>\n

But the director wasn’t the only one to try to convince Ruaffalo he’d make a great Bruce Banner \u2014 his soon-to-be costar\u00a0Robert Downey Jr.<\/a>\u00a0also rung him up to do some cajoling.<\/p>\n

“And then I got a call from Downey, it must’ve made it to him that I was hemming and hawing, and he just simply said, ‘Ruffalo, let’s go. We got this.’ In true Iron Man fashion. And then after that, I was like, ‘I guess I have to do it.’ “<\/p>\n

Marvel is notoriously secretive about its projects, but Ruffalo managed to get his hands on a few pages of the\u00a0Avengers<\/em>\u00a0script before officially agreeing to star in the movie, and reading those pages is what ultimately confirmed his interest in playing the superhero.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to read a script, and they don’t give you scripts. I made a promise when I was a young actor that I would never do another movie without reading a script beforehand, because it’s a recipe for disaster, and then you get stuck in something \u2014 our only power as young actors are our ability to say ‘no’ sometimes,” Ruffalo explained. “And so I was like, ‘I need to read something,’ and the studio was like, ‘We’re sorry, we don’t give anything out.’<\/p>\n

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But Whedon slipped Ruffalo 20 pages of what he had written so far of Bruce Banner’s character, and Ruffalo was hooked.<\/p>\n

“I read that first scene of when\u00a0Scarlett [Johansson]<\/a>, when Black Widow finds Banner in India, and I was like, ‘Okay, I love this.'”<\/p>\n

“It was different, you know,” Ruffalo said of the script. “I was like, ‘Oh, okay … It’s humorous and it’s kind of playful and I think I could do something with it.’ “<\/p>\n

As Marvel fans know, Ruffalo went on to star in several more Marvel movies, including last year’s blockbuster hit,\u00a0Avengers: Endgame<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The actor recently revealed he’d like to star in a\u00a0stand-alone Hulk film<\/a>\u00a0given the opportunity.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve never really followed him into his life. He\u2019s always kind of off on the side,” Ruffalo mused in an April\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0Variety<\/em>. “He\u2019s like the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of the Avengers. It\u2019d be interesting to fill in all the blanks about what happened to him in between all these movies.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing completely at a place where it\u2019s a done deal,\u201d Ruffalo said, adding that the idea has been floated of having his character appear in the upcoming Disney+ series\u00a0She-Hulk<\/em>. \u201cIf we come up with something good, that would be really interesting. Right now, that\u2019s about it. That\u2019s all there is on the table.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to imagine anyone else playing Bruce Banner after\u00a0Mark Ruffalo\u00a0took over the role \u2014 but it turns out that it took some\u00a0Iron Man-level persuasion to convince Ruffalo, 52, to take the job. 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