Mark Ruffalo received his fourth Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his outrageously funny turn as Duncan Wedderbum in Poor Things, but as he tells me in this new edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, this one was unlike anything he had ever tried before on film. In fact, he kept asking director Yorgos Lanthimos if he was sure he wanted him, like maybe it was a mistake. Clearly it wasn’t.
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Ruffalo previously was nominated in the same category for Foxcatcher, Spotlight and The Kids Are All Right. In a way, he is already an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) recipient — or EGOT-lite, as he said when I brought it up, because he has been nominated for Emmys (and won for I Know This Much Is True), Tonys and even a Grammy (for a Bernie Sanders spoken-word effort) in addition to those Oscar nominations.
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We talk about all of his roles, the challenges of Poor Things and how he felt getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame right in front of the Stella Adler acting school he came to when he first hit Los Angeles at age 18. Plus, he’s got amazing and hilarious stories about all his theater work in hole-in-the-wall L.A. stages way, way, way Off Broadway (but he’s done that too, obviously). It is a conversation you don’t want to miss.
To watch just click on the video above, and join me for other episodes of The Actor’s Side all this week and next as Oscar season winds to a close.