Mark Ruffalo Says He Was Given a 'Dummy' Script for Avengers: Endgame : 'I've Been Dying to See It'
Mark Ruffalo finally got a chance to see Avengers: Endgame on Monday at the highly anticipated superhero film’s Los Angeles premiere — a good thing, considering he was kept in the dark about the movie’s major plot points, even though he was in it.
The 51-year-old actor, who plays The Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, told Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet that directors Joe and Anthony Russo never gave him the real script for the movie. It was their attempt to prevent the loose-lipped actor from leaking spoilers.
“I got a script, but it was a dummy,” Ruffalo said. “There were scenes in there that I thought we were shooting that nobody ever shot.”
“I’ve been dying to see it,” added Ruffalo, who walked the carpet with his wife Sunrise Coigney (their kids — son Keen, 17, and daughters Bella, 13, and Odette, 11 — were also in attendance, ET reported). “We had a chance to see it yesterday, but I held off because I want to see it with an audience, I want to be in that experience with you guys. Yeah, that’s when it really means something.”
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Of course, Ruffalo wasn’t the only Avengers: Endgame star out of the loop. Tom Holland (Spider-Man) also wasn’t given a script, director Joe previously told IndieWire.
“Yeah, Tom Holland does not get the script,” Joe explained. “Tom Holland gets his lines and that’s it. He doesn’t even know who he’s acting opposite of. We use like, very vague terms to describe to him what is happening in the scene.”
The decision is a wise one, considering that throughout his time playing the web-slinging superhero, Holland has accidentally (and hilariously) spilled some of Marvel’s biggest secrets.
He famously revealed there would be two Spider-Man: Homecoming sequels long before the studio had announced the franchise offerings. He was also the first one to share the title of the upcoming film Spider-Man: Far From Home, showing a photo of the logo on his Instagram account months after Infinity War dropped.
Then there was the time he spoiled Infinity War‘s ending to a movie theater full of fans waiting to see the movie, telling them, “I’m alive” before they had any idea his character perished in the film.
All that inspired Russo to cut off Holland’s access. “He has a very difficult time keeping his mouth shut,” Joe teased to IndieWire.
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But doesn’t filming the movie mean that the stars would know what happens? Not necessarily!
Earlier this month, told Yahoo! that he wasn’t sure whether The Hulk survived Avengers: Infinity War until he watched the 2018 blockbuster, having filmed a second ending in which his character disintegrated into dust.
“I didn’t know until I saw the movie,” Ruffalo said. “For one take, I did disappear, and then the other one I didn’t.”
“I was pretty sure it was gonna be me,” Ruffalo continued. “It’s like Survivor. It’s like, who’s gonna get kicked off the island? And I probably should’ve. … It’s like Project Runway for leakers.”
The Hulk — along with original Avengers Iron-Man (Robert Downey, Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), Black Widow (Scarlette Johansson) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) — will finish the epic battle against Thanos after most of their fellow allies perished at the end of Infinity War. Avengers newcomer Captain Marvel, played by Brie Larson, will join them in what is the culmination of over 10 years of storyline established in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Avengers: Endgame arrives in theaters on Friday.
