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  • -Hey, do you believe -- how much --

  • what happens in a year?

  • A year ago at this time, "Avengers: Endgame" came out.

  • -It's crazy.

  • -Isn't that wild?

  • -It's -- it's hard to believe. -How fast everything changes.

  • It's the biggest movie in the entire world

  • and remember I had a question for you that I didn't ask

  • when you were on last time, but there was a rumor that

  • you didn't want to take the role of the Hulk at first.

  • And there was -- was that true? I don't know.

  • -I was -- I was scared.

  • I didn't know what I would --

  • could add to what I'd already

  • thought had been done so well before me.

  • And I just was like -- I don't know that I'm --

  • and I'd only been doing indie movies up to that point.

  • So I was like, I don't know, like,

  • I don't know if I'm the right person for this.

  • And Joss Whedon's like, "Yeah, you are the right person."

  • And then, I got a call from Downey who --

  • it must've made it to him that I was, you know --

  • -Waffling? -Yeah.

  • -Hemming and hawing and he just simply said,

  • "Ruffalo, let's go. We got this."

  • And in true Iron Man fashion.

  • And then after that, I was like, I guess I have to do it.

  • But, you know, the big thing was is I wanted to read a script

  • and they don't give you scripts.

  • And so, 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.

  • Our only power as a young actor

  • is our ability to say no sometimes.

  • -That's true.

  • -And so, I was like, "I need to read something."

  • And the studio's like, "Sorry, we don't give anything out."

  • And Whedon's was like, Joss, God bless him, man.

  • He's like, "Hey, man, here's like 20 pages

  • of what I have written of Banner."

  • And I read that first scene when Scarlett --

  • when Black Widow finds Banner in India and I was like,

  • "Okay, I love this. This is amazing."

  • -Really?

  • -And it was different, you know?

  • Oh, okay, I think I could do -- this is humorous

  • and it's kind of playful

  • and I think I could do something with it.

  • -At this point, I could see no one else doing it.

  • It was just so perfect and so -- I know it's bizarre to even say,

  • but I'm almost comfortable with you being the Hulk.

  • Even in the last one where it's like Hulk/human like --

  • I was like, oh, yeah, that's great, it's hilarious.

  • Like, my brain it's almost like a deep meditation

  • where you're just like in the zone.

  • I'm like, oh, yeah, that happens.

  • He's at a diner, he's taking pictures with kids,

  • that's cool, like, wait, what?

  • Like, my brain was tricked.

  • You're just now -- that's it.

  • -And then we got there, I mean, literally, like,

  • that should've been its own movie.

  • That's what I'm pitching, actually,

  • that -- that section of time,

  • like, how did Banner become the Bulk, you know?

  • -Yeah! -Half human, half Hulk.

  • How did he become the Bulk? -[ Laughs ]

-Hey, do you believe -- how much --

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