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To see the difference between turgid melodrama and tragedy, you need look no further than broadcast TV's dozen recent This Is Us knockoffs — Council of Dads, I'm looking at you — and Derek Cianfrance's adaptation of Wally Lamb's I Know This Much Is True.

Ruffalo said "Blue Valentine" director Derek Cianfrance tried and failed to cast him in "Blue Valentine" in a role eventually played by Ryan Gosling, reports variety.com.

We just learned that Mark Ruffalo was almost given Ryan Gosling‘s role in the hit 2010 movie Blue Valentine!

Here’s a new trailer for an upcoming six-part TV series coming to screens soon, I Know This Much Is True, which will stars Mark Ruffalo. It comes to the small screen from the acclaimed Derek Cianfrance, the filmmaker behind the superb Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond The Pines. The series is based on the source novel of the same name by Wally Lamb.

In today’s TV News Roundup, HBO announced the premiere date for “I Know This Much Is True” and CNN launched a new podcast focusing on coronavirus. 

Mark Ruffalo is playing double duty in HBO’s new miniseries, I Know This Much Is True. On Sunday, HBO dropped the first trailer for the six-part series, directed by Derek Cianfrance and based on Wally Lamb’s 1998 novel by the same name.

Mark Ruffalo isn't just playing identical twins in HBO's miniseries I Know This Much Is True.