Source: GQ Interview
Whether Ruffalo will return as Hulk is up in the air. "I'd love to do a standalone Hulk, I just don't think that's ever going to happen," he says. The CGI for the character is costly to produce, even though Ruffalo says it's likely to have come down in price over the years as technology has advanced. "It's very expensive if you did a whole movie, which is why they use the Hulk so sparingly. I priced myself out!"
Ruffalo has heard what critics have to say about him giving his prime acting years to playing a comic book hero. I wonder if it bothers him that there is something of a perception that the work is, perhaps, you know, not…
"Cool? I've heard it a lot from my peers," he says. "Sometimes I think it's jealousy, a little bit. Because then I see them run off and do it."
On the shift to Disney+:
Marvel is currently going through an identity crisis. Post Avengers: Endgame, the studio has struggled to form a cohesive narrative that ties its properties together. Recent release The Marvels is the studio's worst performing film ever, and its streaming shows on Disney+ are reportedly struggling to consistently attract big audiences. Meanwhile, fans are still waiting to be convinced to care about its new stable of heroes introduced after the departure of Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man and Chris Evans' Captain America.
"I think the expansion into streaming was really exciting, but the thing about Marvel movies is you had to wait three years and that created a mystique," Ruffalo says. "These corrections could be really positive things. Will it be what it was? I don't know."
