Entertainment Weekly caught up with Mark Ruffalo to talk about his new movie Sympathy For Delicious. He was also asked some questions about his up coming portrayal of Bruce Banner/ The Hulk in Marvel's The Avengers.
I actually start the day Sympathy For Delicious (April 29th) opens.
On his preparation for the role:
I’ve been working with (director/co-writer) Joss Whedon quite a bit on developing it, my portion of it. I’ll be working with Robert Downey, and I’m already doing the motion capture stuff. I’m excited.
On performing as both The Hulk and Bruce Banner:
I’m the first actor to do both. It’s really cool. I was surprised by how well my theater training played into the motion capture thing, because it’s all your imagination. When he moves across the ground, I want him using all fours, using his arms as much as his legs to move from here to there. I’d like to capture some of the primitive aspect of him.
On if he sees The Hulk as a kind of hunched, gorilla-type:
Not so much hunched, but the low center of gravity, and the flailing of the arms sometimes.
On what the Hulk will look like:
He looks just like me, but bloated and green. And big! He looks like me 40 pounds ago.
On not having to get in shape like the other cast members:
It’s not a bad deal! The more of a difference there is between Mark and the Hulk, the happier everyone seems to be. I was like, ‘So do you want me to get ripped up?’ And they went, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no! Nice and trim. We want you nice and trim.’ They said, ‘We want you to look good with your shirt off, but we don’t want you strapped.’ I can live with that. And so can my wife!
The Avengers opens on May 4, 2012
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