Mark Ruffalo

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q41422: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Sympathy for Delicious (2010). Count them as actor (27 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (1) everyone in directing

Acting (55) everyone in acting

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (16)

  1. career (career surprise): Mark Ruffalo → Poor Things. Amanda marvels that Ruffalo spent ten MCU years and never did a part like this.
    “I can't believe Mark Ruffalo is just in the MCU for like 10 years and wasn't doing stuff like this”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:58:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → You Can Count on Me. Ruffalo's breakthrough was You Can Count on Me, a two-hander that got Linney an Oscar nomination.
    “This sort of supporting roles in indie movies and then is just has this like insane breakthrough and you can count on me, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:35:39 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → Signs. During his illness Ruffalo dropped out of films, including the Joaquin Phoenix part in Signs.
    “Like, he's supposed to be Joaquin Phoenix and signs.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:36:46 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → Zodiac. Zodiac, despite flopping, was the moment Ruffalo reclaimed the leading-man trajectory.
    “Despite being a flop at the time, zodiac was the moment where it's like, oh, he's kind of reclaiming the role that we all thought he was going to do.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:39:39 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → The Kids Are All Right. The Kids Are All Right gave him his first Oscar nomination, which seemed overdue.
    “Kids are all right as his 1st Oscar nomination.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:39:48 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → Dark Waters. Ruffalo does non-Marvel work like Dark Waters alongside the Marvel films.
    “I can still watch like Dark Waters and I can be like, yeah, that's my man right there.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:41:28 · Jourdain Searles (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → Spotlight. Ruffalo got the Spotlight Oscar nomination from a cast expected to get three.
    “It's funny how everyone was like spotlight's gonna get like fucking 3 best supporting actor nominations.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:42:13 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → Shutter Island. Ruffalo has played cops in many modes, including Collateral and Shutter Island.
    “Um, he is just so bizarrely good at both playing cops, which he's done a lot in different modes, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:48:20 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  9. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → You Can Count on Me. His breakout, a second lead beside Laura Linney, put him on the map as a leading man.
    “Kenny Lonergan, my favorite playwright, cast him as the 2nd lead, and you can count on me alongside Laura Linney”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:19:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → 13 Going on 30. After his illness he went for rom-com leads and got stuck as the nice pushover, the Bill Pullman of rom-coms.
    “At this point, it's like he's becoming like the Bill Pullman of rom-coms.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:22:41 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → Sympathy for Delicious. His directorial debut, a low point (hosts disagree on degree) when he claimed he might quit acting.
    “It's just a dumbass hole, Sundance movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:23:30 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → Zodiac. Zodiac is cited as proof he is one of the best actors working, undercutting the 'mailman' theory.
    “Zodiac, which I think is one of the best performances of the last 20 years.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:23:39 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → The Brothers Bloom. Even when it flopped, Brothers Bloom showed Ruffalo acting hard, not mailing it in.
    “Ruffle is acting in this. He ain't mailing nothing in.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:24:26 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → The Kids Are All Right. A role of under 5 working days brought his first Oscar nomination and the comeback, then Shutter Island with Scorsese.
    “I believe he worked less than 5 days on that film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:24:56 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → View from the Top. Ruffalo was a rom-com mail-it-in actor after that bomb before Marvel and The Kids Are All Right rescued him.
    “he starts calling him the mailman because he mails it in.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:18:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  16. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → The Kids Are All Right. Oscar nomination for The Kids Are All Right (2010) plus Marvel saved him.
    “Because he gets his Oscar nomination for the kids are all right.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:19:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

contrast (4)

  1. contrast (awards contrast): Mark Ruffalo → Willem Dafoe. Dafoe repeats what he has done before while Ruffalo breaks new ground, so Ruffalo's snub is odder.
    “whereas Ruffalo is doing something”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:23:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Mark Ruffalo → Don Cheadle. Cheadle disappeared into Marvel and Showtime; Ruffalo kept things balanced.
    “essentially since being brought into Marvel, Don Sheetle has done 10 Marvel things and 2 Showtime series.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:41:33 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Mark Ruffalo → Eric Bana. Banner interpretations: Bana bottled rage, Thornton nervy, Ruffalo sheepish and rumpled.
    “So, like, Bana is just like bottled rage. Right. Thorton is like nervy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:17:58 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Mark Ruffalo → Edward Norton. Norton made you want the Hulk out already; Ruffalo makes you feel for Banner.
    “Whereas like with Norton you're like, turn into the Hulk already.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:33:34 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (5)

  1. craft (craft): Mark Ruffalo → Margaret. His New York specificity, as in Margaret, is unusual for an actor who is not from the city.
    “Like you look at shit like Margaret's, where you're just like, he really gets like New York specificity”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:48:45 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Mark Ruffalo → You Can Count on Me. In You Can Count on Me Ruffalo catches a bug mid-monologue and keeps going, the spontaneity he describes.
    “a bug comes into frame and he like, or like a butterfly or something and he holds his hand out and like catches it on his hand and keeps on talking.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:23:12 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Taylor Lautner → Mark Ruffalo. Lautner's padded wolf bodysuit is like Ruffalo's bizarre upper torso suit on Marvel sets, so co-stars' hands land right.
    “Ruffalo wears this, like, bizarre upper torso, you know?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:14:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Robert Downey Jr. → Mark Ruffalo. Banner now dresses like Tony Stark.
    “now Bruce Banner just dresses like Tony Stark”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:42:41 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Mark Ruffalo → Eric Bana. Bana's and Ruffalo's CGI Hulks stay tied to the actor psychologically or by face; Norton's does not.
    “The Ruffalo Hook thing nailed because he looks like Ruffalo and you really get that performance.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:55:36 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Mark Ruffalo → Marlon Brando. Mumbly, natural, handsome newcomers get the Brando comparison; Ruffalo got it.
    “Well, he got the Brando talk.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:35:58 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Robert Downey Jr. → Mark Ruffalo. Downey personally lobbied Ruffalo, promising fun, money, and financing for his other movies.
    “It will let you get the other movies financed, which I think is what really pushed him over the edge.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:26:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (parallel role): Mark Ruffalo → Sterling K. Brown. Both play comic relief who force a realization on the lead, which is why one host wants both recognized.
    “Like they're comic relief, but they're also like a critical emotional turning point for the lead character.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:24:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Mark Ruffalo → Dark Waters. Late cut for David's Best Actor: 'Hunchback of West Virginia'.
    “Hunchback of West Virginia.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:51:52 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): Mark Ruffalo → Signs. Ruffalo was cast in the Joaquin Phoenix role in Signs but dropped out after a tumor in his ear.
    “And he had been cast in the Joaquin Phoenix role in signs.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:20:14 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Mark Ruffalo → Joaquin Phoenix. Ruffalo and Phoenix were the short list to replace Norton; Feige keeps courting Phoenix (Doctor Strange too) and Phoenix only did Joker because it was twisted.
    “Kevin Feige is always trying to get Joaquin Phoenix to do one of these movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:25:35 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Mark Ruffalo: Ruffalo says his first day with Gyllenhaal took 68 takes and he hoped Fincher was coming to fire him.
    “My favorite line, actually, is Ruffalo saying, like, I did my 1st day with 68 takes with Jake.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:03:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Mark Ruffalo: Ruffalo, the actor who took to Fincher's system most, said he finally understood Fincher is taking a stab at immortality.
    “He says, I finally understood, quote, he's taking a stab at immortality, which I think is a really great line for Ruffalo.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:03:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Mark Ruffalo: He hid his brain tumor from Hollywood and dropped out of films, so people thought he was torpedoing his career.
    “he doesn't want people to know that he's sick because it's still a time in Hollywood where people hold that against you.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:36:52 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Mark Ruffalo: Jourdain heard his kids call him Papa and finds it very hot.
    “I heard that his kids call him Papa, which I also find very hot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:40:41 · Jourdain Searles (0.80 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Mark Ruffalo: His method-acting credo, read aloud: spontaneity and vulnerability are gold, and his style is a foot in the grave and one on a banana peel.
    “My style would be one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:22:02 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Mark Ruffalo: Ruffalo's career: Lonergan breakout, dropped out of Signs with an ear tumor, rom-com rut ('the mailman'), then Zodiac, Oscar nomination, and the Avengers call.
    “He's the Bill Pullman of rom-coms.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:22:41 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Mark Ruffalo: His agent told him to look out the window at 5:30 AM; a black car meant Comic-Con and the announcement as the Hulk, hours later.
    “if there's a black car parked outside, it's to take you to the airport to go to Comic-Con.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:26:22 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Mark Ruffalo: Hulk finally looks like the actor; the transformation scene and purple shirt get praise at 1:15.
    “And for the 1st time, he looks like the actor.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:15:33 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)