Mark Ruffalo Says The Avengers 2 Enhances Bruce Banner and Hulk Relationship

Mark Ruffalo continues to do press for his new movie Begin Again, but of course reporters are asking him numerous questions about The Avengers: Age of Ultron on tour. He answers these questions amid continually growing speculation that a solo Hulk movie is coming, and that the movie would be based on Planet Hulk.

Ruffalo spoke to Indiewire about the character and where he would like to take the big green monster in the future. The actor, who said he wants to be on the "leading edge" of motion-capture work, offered the following lengthy response when asked if he was itching to do a solo Hulk movie:

"If we could find a story that's compelling enough to hold people's interest for the two hours -- that is essential. It's a tough nut to crack and I see it as a tough nut to crack. I think it's tougher than the other superheroes because you have a guy who essentially doesn't want to be there doing the thing that you want him to do more than anything. So it can be frustrating as an audience member. It could become a little mirthless.

I think that Joss [Whedon] is trying to set it up enough so that we can strike out new ground on that relationship. With the new technology there's a lot to do in Hulk-land that we haven't done yet that is really exciting. So you could have a balance of the two.

And I've been finding this relationship between Banner and the Hulk and Hulk and Banner is equally compelling -- it's been explored in the comics, but never in the movies. It's always been Banner's relationship to this sort of lump, this unknowable very two-dimensional thing. But there's also something really interesting about Hulk's relationship with Banner. The only thing that scares Hulk is Banner. It's not some bigger, scarier, huger thing -- it's this frail man. And it terrifies him and it angers him. It's such an interesting relationship that no one has cracked. I feel like that would be an interesting place for us to go. That might hold people's attention."

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