Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMark Ruffalo has a clear recollection of the first time he walked into the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in Los Angeles.“I was living in San Diego and basically just surfing and smoking weed and going nowhere really fast,” Ruffalo tells Variety. “Someone told me I should go study there so out of my desperation and my secret of wanting to be an actor, I took the train up there for an interview with my teacher Joanne Linville.”He was excited, but also very nervous.
He looked around at the photos on the walls of Adler from her various theater work. “Here I am, this kid from Kenosha, Wis., who was dyslexic, could barely read, I barely got through high school and I went in and I talked to.
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