Robert Downey, Jr. convinced hesitant Mark Ruffalo to accept Hulk role

hollywood.com:

Mark Ruffalo was hesitant to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as he wasn’t sure how he could make the role of The Hulk his own.

The 52-year-old actor told Jimmy Fallon during The Tonight Show on Friday (May 8, 2020) that it was co-star Robert Downey, Jr.

who convinced him to accept the offer, admitting: “I was scared. “I didn’t know what I could add to what I already thought had been done so well before me.” Explaining his hesitation, Mark revealed he was only doing “indie movies up ’til that point.

So I was like, ‘I don’t know if I’m the right person for this.’ And Joss Whedon‘s like, ‘Yeah, you are the right person.’ “Then I got a call from Downey, it must’ve made it to him that I was hemming and hawing, and he just simply said,