Marvel Stars Assemble: Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo on ‘Oppenheimer,’ Going Naked in ‘Poor Things’ and Not Always Understanding MCU Dialogue
04.12.2023 - 16:33
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Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo first met 28 years ago, through their girlfriends at the time, before hunting a serial killer in David Fincher’s “Zodiac,” and well before battling Thanos in Marvel’s “Avengers” movies. The milage on their friendship shows in their shared enthusiasm for their electrifying performances this year: Downey in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” as the calculating U.S. Atomic Energy Commission official Lewis Strauss, and Ruffalo in Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” as Duncan Wedderburn, an unscrupulous libertine. Both actors stretched far beyond their well-established movie star personas, and they were eager to ask each other about how they’d done it. Robert Downey Jr.: We really met when Fincher cast us in “Zodiac.” Mark Ruffalo: What a wild ride that was.
Downey: I remember that was maybe the first time we really had our feet put to the fire with an exacting director who does things a certain way. Ruffalo: He invented the delete button. There was no delete button ever in digital cinema and he specifically had it invented so that he could say, “We’re going to delete takes 1 through 45” and you’re just like, “No, no, no, no! 38 was my baby!” Downey: And then we had this whole decade-and-a-half Marvel run where we were just looking at each other like, “God, we’re really lucky.
What are we doing? Who’s a wizard? Who’s coming from outer space?” which I think was another great challenge. Ruffalo: It was such a different world. They didn’t really cast people like us.
I’ll never forget, I was like, “I don’t know if I’m right for this.” And you’re like, “Come on, Ruffalo, we got this.” Downey: Yeah. How’s that new brownstone on the Upper West Side? Ruffalo: Thank you. Downey: Oh, please, dude.
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