-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 ]
