“This guy’s like a nasty dictator”: Mark Ruffalo to Continue His Villain Era in Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 Starring Robert Pattinson After Poor Things Success
Actor Mark Ruffalo who gained international recognition after her starred as Bruce Banner/ Hulk in Marvel Cinematic Universe is regarded as one of the finest actors in the industry. The audience not only appreciates his characters but also the way he approaches them and manages to make them look real on-screen.
The actor has been a part of various romantic comedies including 13 Going on 30, Being Again, Just Like Heaven, Rumor Has It, and more. But recently he was appreciated for his performance in Poor Things opposite Emma Stone as the antagonist. And he plans to continue with his villain era. Let’s find out more.
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Mark Ruffalo to star as a psychopath commander in Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17
According to reports by Deadline, Mark Ruffalo is set to continue his streak of playing a bad guy on-screen with Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17. He is set to play a commander of a colonizing outer space excursion. While talking about embracing his villain-esque era with Deadline, Ruffalo said,
“This guy’s like a nasty dictator, fascist, narcissist; we know the type! He’s as bad as any of these a**holes running around today.”
Mark Ruffalo further revealed during the interview that after Poor Things, he feels like it’s a whole new era for him as he now enjoys playing a bad guy on-screen. He mentioned,
“I really didn’t think I could do it. Being a bad person on-screen, breaking whatever expectation. It’s such a flashy part and I had never really dug my teeth into anything like that—and man it was freeing and liberating and just joyfully wicked.”
He continued,
“Nobody asked me to do them and so this is the one time where they saw me in a part I don’t think many people would have possibly seen me in. It’s not so much avoiding it, they don’t really come my way. Now they will, hopefully.”
Mickey 17 also stars Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, and Toni Collette. The movie is adapted from a novel by Edward Ashton.
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Mark Ruffalo on why he chose to play Duncan Wedderburn in Poor Things
In an interview with Screen Daily, Mark Ruffalo admits that he was tired of being Mark Ruffalo before he agreed to play Duncan Wedderburn in Poor Things. He talks about his experience of working on Poor Things,
“I’d never really done a period piece and I’d never really done an accent—successfully. So it was very daunting to me. It had to be forced. It wasn’t naturalistic or realistic. A big part of it was nailing that style, pushing it but making sure it was always grounded.”
The actor worked with British voice and dialect coach Neil Swain to carry out Duncan Wedderburn’s accent in the movie. Ruffalo added that he started to wonder if his character was just English or just full of shit if everything about him was pretense.
At The Hollywood Reporter’s Actors Roundtable with Robert Downey Jr, Andrew Scott, Paul Giamatti, Colman Domingo, and Jeffrey Wright, he discussed how he asked his director if he did not think he was right for the part. He said
“Yorgos just laughed at me. In the movie business, it is starting to feel like you’re a little bit in a box sometimes. But I had never played anything like that either. And I was scared, I mean, I saw his movies and I was in awe of them. So I was really scared. And he just laughed at me.”
The critics have appreciated Poor Things as well as the audience with Emma Stone sweeping awards for her brilliant performance as Bella Baxter. Ruffalo added that it was such a great turn and he got to do so much fun stuff in it and break the perceptions about him.
Poor Things will be available to stream on Hulu.
