After talking with Robert Downey Jr., Empire sat down to interview with fellow Avenger Mark Ruffalo to talk all things Hulk with focus mainly on how he figures into the highly anticipated Avengers: Age of Ultron, with the actor teasing a different take on Ol' Green Skin than the one we saw in the original Avengers. "I think he's definitely matured a little bit since the last one," the actor says, "He's become more acclimated to this thing and to being part of the team. I think he feels more a part of them all. But in this particular take on it, it's a much more character-driven version of The Avengers than the first one. It gets a little deeper into each character. S.H.I.E.L.D. is not happening anymore, so there's not that much time spent with the S.H.I.E.L.D. stuff." He also went onto explain that the movie will explore the Jekyl and Hyde dynamic of the character, saying, "There's a battle going on between these two opposing egos that live inside him. He's definitely worried that the day is going to come when the Hulk gets the best of him, and maybe won't release him, maybe won't give him back. The Hulk knows this too. There's a moment in here where he, begrudgingly, decides to go back to Banner. Who knows where these things will go, but as Bruce is able to impress his will on the Hulk, going into The Hulk and being inside the Hulk when he's raging, The Hulk's will is also growing and able to impress upon Bruce. That makes for some wild things. We're laying the groundwork for that here. It'll be interesting to see if that ends up being what would be the next Hulk movie."
Another solo Hulk movie, especially with Ruffalo involved, is something fans have being wanting ever since the credits rolled on The Avengers, but the actor is wary of whether or not another Hulk movie would work. "It's a tough nut to cracl", he says, " Traditionally you're watching a guy who doesn't want to do the very thing that you want him to do. It's hard to take for two hours. I don't know how many times you can use that same framing for it, but now he's maturing and there's a cool dynamic growing between Banner and The Hulk. And the CGI is so much better. The stuff we can do now, you can do a real performance. I've been working with Andy Serkis at his Imaginarium studio and he has it set up where you go in there and you just start working on a character. It is so exciting to me, because I can do whatever I can imagine, with a team of people of course."
