We planned a low-key, ‘nerdy’ wedding — then Mark Ruffalo showed up

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spotlight.Mark Ruffalo gatecrashed a Welsh couple’s spontaneous wedding in Central Park last weekend.Klaire Hodgson and Lynz Tanner, from Gwynedd, Wales, were about to walk down the aisle when they spotted the “Hulk” star, 55, ambling through the park.According to the newlyweds, Ruffalo took a detour from his nature walk to stop by as they were setting up, expecting them to recognize his Oscar-nominated mug.“I noticed he had a really nice camera, and I was thinking, ‘Oh, he must do photography,'” Hodgson, 36, told NorthWalesLive. “But I thought, ‘I can’t know this guy.

I’m in New York, I don’t know anyone in New York.'”Then it dawned on them. As he turned to walk away, Tanner, 28, shouted, “Oh my god, Mark Ruffalo!”“Then he turned ’round and was like, ‘Hey!’ He came back over then,” Hodgson said. “He was absolutely lovely.

He was so nice.”As they posed for a photo with the “Spotlight” actor, he shook their hands and congratulated them on their “magical” day.The self-proclaimed nerds were starstruck to meet the unexpected gatecrasher.

On their wedding day, the pair donned matching Star Trek communication badges on their suits, and just two days prior, Hodgson got inked with a Batman tattoo.“So for The Hulk to turn up was pretty cool!” Hodgson exclaimed. “Of all the people, of all the genres of film or TV or anything to have turned up to our nerdy wedding!”“The Adam Project” actor follows in the footsteps of Tom Hanks, a self-professed wedding crasher with an “unchecked” ego.“I just can’t help but think, ‘What would these people like more than anything else to remember this magic day of days?