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Mark Ruffalo es generalmente reconocido por su papel como Hulk en las películas de The Avengers pero antes de eso Ruffalo apareció en varias comedias románticas como 13 Going On 30 y Just Like Heaven. Además también ha hecho varios papeles en dramas de cine y de televisión los que han resultado en algunos premios y nominaciones.
El actor también ha incursionado en el teatro tanto dirigiendo como actuando y ha participado como productor en películas como Anything. En 2018 fue nominado a un Grammy en la categoría de Mejor Álbum Hablado por el audiolibro Our Revolution: A Future We Believe In escrito por Bernie Sanders y narrado por él. Recientemente ha protagonizado la serie de HBO I Know This Much Is True. Mark Ruffalo también ha sido muy abierto sobre sus diversas opiniones políticas y causas sociales.
Próximamente protagonizará la nueva película de Frankenstein Poor Things junto a Emma Stone. En este video Ruffalo nos cuenta sobre sus papeles más icónicos a lo largo de su trayectoria, nos cuenta divertidas historias sobre los rodajes, sobre su proceso para convertirse en los personajes, nos revela también datos de su vida privada y como estos afectaron en los papeles que protagonizo. Habla sobre una amplia variedad de sus películas desde Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind y Shutter Island hasta The Kids Are Alright y The Avengers.
El actor también ha incursionado en el teatro tanto dirigiendo como actuando y ha participado como productor en películas como Anything. En 2018 fue nominado a un Grammy en la categoría de Mejor Álbum Hablado por el audiolibro Our Revolution: A Future We Believe In escrito por Bernie Sanders y narrado por él. Recientemente ha protagonizado la serie de HBO I Know This Much Is True. Mark Ruffalo también ha sido muy abierto sobre sus diversas opiniones políticas y causas sociales.
Próximamente protagonizará la nueva película de Frankenstein Poor Things junto a Emma Stone. En este video Ruffalo nos cuenta sobre sus papeles más icónicos a lo largo de su trayectoria, nos cuenta divertidas historias sobre los rodajes, sobre su proceso para convertirse en los personajes, nos revela también datos de su vida privada y como estos afectaron en los papeles que protagonizo. Habla sobre una amplia variedad de sus películas desde Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind y Shutter Island hasta The Kids Are Alright y The Avengers.
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00:00The great thing about being an actor is you're invited into people's worlds that you normally would never be invited into.
00:06People want to tell their stories. They want to be seen and they want to be understood.
00:11As an actor, you just get to go on these incredible journeys that most people are never invited to or never have the opportunity to travel on.
00:2413 Going on 30.
00:26The character I played in 13 Going on 30 is Matt Flamhaff.
00:30Who was a pudgy, awkward kid who grew up to be a photographer.
00:36He fell in love with his childhood sweetheart, played by Jennifer Garner.
00:40Gary Winnick, rest in peace.
00:42We came up in kind of the indie New York theater and film scene.
00:47He got this chance to do a big budget film and it was 13 Going on 30.
00:53And he's like, hey man, I want to do this romantic comedy, but I don't want to do it like all these other things.
00:59I want to have a message and he gave me a script, but it wasn't great.
01:03And we all worked on it to try and make it into something that that we felt would be worthy of our time.
01:11And we shot it and it came out really, really nice.
01:14I didn't know it was going to become iconic.
01:16I didn't know that the messages in it were real.
01:19You know, we played it all as real as we could.
01:22And I think it's, in a weird way, a really wholesome movie for young women, you know, and young men.
01:30Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
01:33Michel Gondry was this amazing director that everyone wanted to work with.
01:38I heard about that he was doing a movie and I asked for the script.
01:41And they told me there's, you know, there's just a kind of a small part in it.
01:45And I read it and I was like, yeah, it is a small part, but I just think I could do something kind of fun and cool with this.
01:53But I'd like to talk to him.
01:55So I had a meeting with Michel and I was like, you know, so I see this guy.
02:01He's like, you know, he sits in his room by himself playing the bass in his underwear.
02:06You know, like I see him with like a pompadour.
02:10He's like, a pompadour?
02:11I was like, I don't know, like kind of like that, but like a mohawk, like half mohawk.
02:16You know, he's really into the clash.
02:18And none of that was in the script, really.
02:21You know, Michel was like, I love this man.
02:23He sounds cool, this man.
02:25And he cast me.
02:26It was an amazing experience.
02:28And we improvised so much of that movie and we were writing it on the fly.
02:32They came to us, they're like, you're shooting 36,000 feet of film a day.
02:37We had like four cameras rolling nonstop.
02:40And Focus actually came in and like shut us down.
02:44They're like, you can't shoot, you can't shoot this much.
02:46But the camera would be rolling while we were just sitting there bullshitting around.
02:51And then Michel loved that.
02:53He was, he used a lot of that stuff in there.
02:55Kirsten Dunst, there's this great scene of us dancing in our underwear.
02:59You know, with Jim Carrey's body laying there.
03:02And that was totally improvised.
03:04Came out of us like passing a joint around and like really feeling, you know, feeling that feeling, you know.
03:12And then, and then it just broke out into this spontaneous, stupid, you know, dancing.
03:18To this day, like a really sweet, sweet movie moment.
03:25Zodiac.
03:25Sometimes you're making characters up and sometimes you're playing real people.
03:31And in that I played Dave Tosky, who I, you know, I was fortunate was still alive.
03:36You're reading a script and you get one idea of a person, you know.
03:40He's like this hard-boiled, you know, San Francisco murdered cop.
03:45And I'm going to play him tough.
03:48And then I said, well, I'd love to meet Dave Tosky.
03:52And everyone was freaked out.
03:53Like, you really want to meet him?
03:54And I was like, yeah, I want to, I want to go hang out with him.
03:57So I took a commuter flight to San Francisco and I went and met him.
04:01He was working in a little security firm.
04:04I went and spent the day with him.
04:06And I spent a few days with him in San Francisco.
04:08I found that when you're playing other people, the best thing to do is to get them drunk or a little bit drunk.
04:15Because then that's when they really, like, open up to you.
04:18But you have to put yourself on the line, too.
04:20So you have to tell some embarrassing stories about yourself first.
04:23But after a while, you know, he won my trust.
04:25I mean, he already looked at me like, who's this Hollywood kid, you know?
04:28What is he doing here?
04:29I really, like, created a nice rapport with him and really realized that my idea, my Hollywood idea of him was so far off from the truth, you know?
04:42And who he was and the idiosyncratic aspects of the way he talked, the way he dressed, even down to, like, eating the animal crackers were so much more interesting than anything that I could have come up with.
04:56Does anyone have any animal crackers?
04:59Animal crackers.
05:00They're in the car.
05:01I'm saving those for later.
05:03David Fincher, who is, like, my hero, and we had the most just incredible kind of collaboration on that.
05:10He's still one of my close friends.
05:12You know, we were all in my trailer, one, like, a Friday night drinking.
05:16And Fincher, who never really, like, carouses with the crew and, you know, he keeps a really strong border between fraternizing.
05:25I poked my head out of my trailer and he was standing out there with an empty glass and he was, like, smoking a cigarette, like, probably, like, his tenth cigarette in his life.
05:35And I was like, David?
05:36He's like, yeah.
05:38Oh, hey.
05:38I was like, you want to come in?
05:40Because I'd always invite him to come by.
05:42He's like, oh, are you guys there?
05:43And I was like, yeah, come on up.
05:45And he's like, oh, I guess I will then, you know?
05:47And he came in and I poured him a big shot of bourbon and we were sitting there.
05:52After a while, it was just him and I.
05:54I was like, how's it going?
05:55He's like, I don't know.
05:59And I said, what do you mean?
06:03And he's like, I don't know if they're going to kill me or not.
06:08I don't know if this is working.
06:11To have that kind of a moment with that kind of director and that kind of vulnerability is also another gift of being in this business.
06:21Shutter Island.
06:24We had rehearsals and Marty was like, okay, these are the films I want you to see.
06:30I have a screening room and we're going to watch these movies together.
06:34And I'm sitting there.
06:35It's me and Marty and Leo.
06:36We're watching Out of the Past.
06:39And I turned to Marty and I'm like, Marty, what if my character, because he's playing this other character that's not him.
06:47What if he like went and watched all these Robert Mitchum movies and he's like doing a Robert Mitchum imitation.
06:54Because he sees him as like the hard-boiled detective that he thinks he should be.
07:00And he's like, yeah, I mean, yeah, do whatever you want, kid.
07:03We'll look at it.
07:03We'll see how it works.
07:04And so, yeah, I did that.
07:08And that whole character came out of that Out of the Past screening.
07:12Doesn't exactly square with Teddy Daniels, the man, the legend.
07:16I'll give you that.
07:17Leo and I went through like this crazy journey.
07:21It was six months in rain.
07:23We were wet the whole time.
07:25We had wetsuits on underneath our clothes.
07:28And I just remember like going to his trailer and playing Xbox, totally soaked, shooting this, you know, 1930s movie and we're in period costume.
07:41The kids are all right.
07:43My brother just passed away just before that.
07:47And I was really disillusioned probably with my life, but also like filmmaking.
07:56And I was like, this is going to be my last movie as an actor.
08:00It was an homage to my brother, the character.
08:02My brother was like this just incredibly charismatic, sexy, dangerous, beautiful, fun, vivacious human being.
08:13And so I'm like, I'm going to play him in this movie.
08:17It was a great experience.
08:18I felt free in a way that I hadn't in a long, long time as an actor.
08:22I remember I had made peace at the idea of stopping acting and transitioning into more directing and writing.
08:31I was at Sundance with it.
08:32And I'll never forget, I was sitting in the audience the first time I'd ever seen it.
08:35And I heard the audience's response to it, which was so sincere and beautiful and was addressing this moment in time and culture where we're talking about gay marriage.
08:48And I saw like how important a film could be, how much people enjoyed it, and how much I actually enjoyed it really deeply.
08:57When I got outside the business of Hollywood and just purely like the experience of making films, I was like, okay, I'm not going anywhere.
09:08And so I gave up the idea of like, you know, what are the box offices?
09:12What are the reviews, what are, what are, you know, what all that is, and just focused on what I actually had control over and what gave me joy.
09:21Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, the love scenes, the crazy, you know, triangle, the humor.
09:32What is wrong with me?
09:34You know, it was everything that I loved about cinema and why I wanted to do it.
09:38And I just felt really free.
09:40The original Avengers.
09:44Totally was like, I'm the wrong guy.
09:46You know, this is, this world, I don't know how to do this.
09:50Josh Sweden sat me down and said, no, I think you are the guy.
09:53I said, well, I don't, I can't really sign on to doing something unless I read a script.
09:57I mean, that's the only power I have as an actor, to be able to say no to something.
10:00I don't know what the hell you're making.
10:02He's like, how about if I send you 20 pages?
10:04Because I read the scene when Black Widow comes to find Banner.
10:08I read that scene and I knew the tone of it.
10:10But now I need you to come in.
10:13What if I say no?
10:15I'll persuade you.
10:16And what if the other guy says no?
10:23And then I got a call from Robert Downey, who's, you know, my hero.
10:28And he said, come on, Ruffalo, we got this.
10:30And that was it.
10:32And I was in.
10:33I've done so much motion capture.
10:34I have to wear what I call the man-canceling suit, which is this really tight leotard that makes you look big where you want to look small and small where you want to look big.
10:43I miss him, man.
10:44It was so humiliating.
10:46And all the actors, whenever I'd walk on set, would just start laughing at me because they were in their cool superhero costumes.
10:53And I'm wearing this ridiculous pajamas that made me look like a Chinese checkerboard.
10:58There was even one point where I catch Downey, Hulk catches Downey, puts him on the ground, right?
11:03And I decide I'm going to do this Hulk roar over him in my little leotard.
11:11What the hell?
11:13And he just kind of hands, he has his eyes closed and he opens one eye and he's just like, really, Ruffalo?
11:21That's what you're going with?
11:23And that's what it's always been like.
11:24In the last movie, he came up to me and he said, I have a lot of compassion for you.
11:28And I was like, why?
11:29Because I see how hard it is for you to stand around in that costume all day.
11:35Fox catching.
11:38That thing had been around for a long time and I'd asked, I kept asking to be seen for it because I was a wrestler.
11:44And it was six months of wrestling and working out and putting on 40 pounds, really grueling.
11:52And all the wrestling you see in there is us wrestling.
11:55And I had another real character, although he wasn't alive.
11:59But his family really opened themselves to me.
12:01I really got to know Dave Schultz in a, you know, post-humanist way.
12:09Another great experience, Channing Tatum, he's my bro.
12:13You know, we went through that experience together.
12:16And, yeah, I'm really proud of that movie.
12:20Spotlight.
12:21Occasionally, you get movies that are just purely for entertainment and you get movies that are called forth from the culture.
12:30In society, we're having a conversation about an important issue.
12:34And Spotlight was one of those things.
12:35I played Mike Resendiz, another real-life character.
12:38I spent weeks with him, again, became really good friends with him, drank with him, ate with him, absorbed myself into that world of the Washington Post at that particular time.
12:52And the people who were the victims of these priest molestation cases.
12:59We need the full scope.
13:01That's the only thing that will put an end to this.
13:03Let's take it up to Ben, let him decide.
13:05We'll take it to Ben when I say it's time.
13:07It's time, Robbie.
13:08It's time.
13:11They knew and they let it happen to kids.
13:15Okay?
13:16It could have been you.
13:17It could have been me.
13:18It could have been any of us.
13:19And that movie really sparked, like, change in the world that's ongoing today.
13:26A moment where you're in service of something that's important, that people need to know about, and that you can do with cinema in a way you can't do in any other form.
13:37Dark water.
13:38Dark water.
13:39You know, I'm an activist.
13:41I've been an activist probably since the Iraq War was when I kind of really got into it.
13:46I began to see how powerful films were and films could be in that space in a way that you can't really, you can't do as an activist.
13:54You know, because stories transcend all the political and ideological divides that immediately come up when you're an activist, you know.
14:03As time has gone on, I've wanted to blend more of my activism with actual storytelling.
14:08And this article came up, and I just saw it was a place in the space that I've already been working in, which was water.
14:15And this incredible story about this lawyer who was part of the system himself, who was a corporate defense attorney, who was completely indoctrinated in that culture,
14:27believed that corporations were people, that corporations could self-regulate, that the government shouldn't have really much to do with that regulation.
14:37And he went through this experience that he realized that that whole idea was a fallacy and a lie.
14:45They want to show the world it's no use fighting.
14:47Look, everybody, even he can't crack the maze, and he's helped build it.
14:52The system is rigged.
14:55They want us to think it'll protect us, but that's a lie.
14:58We protect us.
15:00We do.
15:00I reached out to him.
15:02I talked to him and his wife, and I immediately fell in love with them and thought, you know, this has never been done quite like this from this point of view.
15:11And he's so antithetical to what a hero is, to like the Hulk or, you know, our other superheroes.
15:19It spoke about a story that transcended all the political ideology.
15:23When we're so divided right now, I just felt like storytelling is a way to unite people around these really big discussions that we had to have in order to make our world a better place.
15:35And so that was my draw to play Rob a lot and take control of, you know, of kind of what I'm doing going forward.
15:44A big part of choosing a role for me is, like, does it challenge me?
15:47Does it break me up?
15:48Does it push me into places that I've never been before that scares the out of me, you know?
15:53Is it a story or a person that expresses some dimension of my beliefs or my feelings?
16:01And lastly, is it something that can actually add to or facilitate or even bring forth a conversation that needs to happen?
16:10I believe that the culture actually calls the movie forward at a particular moment in time when we're having a discussion that is somehow encapsulated.
16:18In that project.
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