Mark Ruffalo Had the Purest Response When He Learned Brie Larson Was in '13 Going on 30' With Him
13 Going on 30 celebrated its 15th anniversary this week, and Entertainment Tonight got in on the nostalgia by asking Mark Ruffalo and Brie Larson about the film at the Avengers: Endgame premiere. It turns out Ruffalo, who starred in 13 Going on 30 alongside Jennifer Garner, had no clue that Larson was in the 2004 film. She played one of the mean girls as a child actress. She's the girl in the blue below:
ET's reporter showed an amazed Ruffalo a photo, and he marveled over it alongside his wife Sunrise Coigney. "She was a mean girl. Oh my god! That’s amazing," he started. "Wow, I didn’t know that." When Coigney said the girl did look a little like Larson, Ruffalo responded, "It looks like her a lot. It’s her. How cool, I didn’t know that! We didn’t work together…That was a lovely little movie. I didn’t get to work with her." You can watch Ruffalo's response at the 2:10 mark:
Fun fact #1: Brie Larson was in ‘13 Going on 30’ with Mark Ruffalo
Fun fact #2: He was just as shook as we were! 😭 #AvengersEndgame pic.twitter.com/nMXs26vOJp- Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) April 23, 2019
And you can see Larson in the film here:
Larson also spoke to Entertainment Tonight about the film and said it inspired her to want to direct. (Larson just released her directorial debut Unicorn Store on Netflix.)
“I remember it was the moment when I realized that I really wanted to direct,” she told ET's reporter on the carpet. “I remember paying a lot of attention to where the camera was and the camera moves, thinking about how I would have cut it together and then seeing the movie and seeing how it differed from what I thought.”
Over on Instagram, Jennifer Garner posted a loving Instagram tribute talking about the film and gave a shoutout to Larson. She captioned her post:
Fifteen years ago today #13GoingOn30 made her debut, directed with ❤️ by our beloved Gary Winick 😇 and a clutch of loving, hardcore producers (3 brilliant women-before it was cool to be led by women!) The movie benefitted from the performances of so many young actresses. Open and twinkly-magical then-now, 15 years later, they are ruling the world. (Hi #SixChicks-@brielarson, @ashleybenson, @christabrittany-who also played a young me in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past-and my own sweet @revjuliaroth). I loved my day with this slumber party crew: they danced with abandon and reminded me of the power of just saying yes-to being in a group, to vulnerability, to wearing a bra over your clothes. At the last minute I tossed my adopted LA family member Maddy Sprung-Keyser into the scene. @maddsk went on to be an Academic All American swimmer at Amherst, got her law degree from NYU, and is producing podcasts for @pineapple.fm. Looking back into her adolescence-with the hair and the men not wanting to jump her bones-is extra special today. Imagine if every 13 year old girl had an opportunity to dance and feel beautiful like the girls in this film. I am proud of all of you. ❤️I feel so, so lucky to have had the experience of making this joyful movie. And even luckier to be part of something that, all of these years later, can still make people (hi, @arianagrande 🤗) smile. 😁"
A post shared by Jennifer Garner (@jennifer.garner) on Apr 23, 2019 at 11:43am PDT
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