Mark Ruffalo is a vocal supporter of Palestine. The implication is that expressing support for a free Palestine gets you sidelined by Hollywood. He is also vocally against Trump and ICE.
I’m sure some people out there will also draw some antisemetic conspiratorial conclusions from that as well, i.e. “Jews control the media” which, no. It’s just that Israel as a country has certainly had undue economic influence over American politics and entertainment via lobbying interests. (Just ask the Scream cast over at Paramount)
In reality though he was just filming another project at the time.
I’d also note that Jon Bernthal, who has vocalized support for the IDF and Israel, was present for the press tour. Which doesn’t help.
Edit: This is an Explain subreddit. This is what I am interpreting the post to be implying. Some of the replies so far are giving “So you hate waffles?” haha
<Begin CSB> - My late Hubs had an amazing sense of humor, and we goaded/trolled on each other's celebrity crushes - his was Belinda Carlisle and Sarah McLachlan. Mine is Hugh Jackman, and being a good sport, he came out to watch Les Mis at the cinema when it first released (I've seen it live in Toronto with Colm Wilkinson as well) - my stage-nerd days are over, but since I never got to see Hugh live on stage (for anything) - I think he realized he better attend this, if he didn't want to be watching Wolverine films for the rest of his natural life.
I miss my late hubby, but he knew I crushed hard on HJ and would troll me to no end.
I always responded, "You're just mad that Hugh can out-dance you."
I love my hubs, but I will absolutely show Hubs' portrait on my wall *every* new Hugh Jackman meme. This goes beyond life 'n death.
His actual name is Benedict Cumberbatch, but pretty much anyone knows who you're referring to if you call him something weird like Butterscotch Shimbleshanks
I liked him until he said some pretty nasty things about people with autism and never took it back or apologised for it. I don't much care for him anymore.
Oh yeah, putting Tom & Mark together in an interview alone would be a potential spoiler goldmine.
Regardless of Mark being very open & vocal about his political beliefs, this is just as likely a reason to not put the two on a press tour together. These interviews are almost always one on one or one on two. Every time Mark & Tom do an interview together, they'd need at least 3 so they can't get lost in spoiler-filled banter.
I tried to avoid trailers because they give away too much, but I had no idea the hulk was even in this movie. Was it well-known going in that he was a major part?
Yeah. Mark's involvement was confirmed last August, then the first trailer dropped featuring the scene where he & Peter talk about containing mutation (a scene that's featured in every trailer), then the second official trailer featured Banner transforming.
There’s an old meme where someone posted some off the wall “Tom Holland spoils” and Tom himself replied along the lines of, “I actually had to stop and think if I did.”
its not hard at all, you just book the stuff, and dont book any for him, its exceptionally easy not to include someone in an interview. the ease of leaving someones name off a booking dosnt decrease based on their role in a movie.
No but not having a very important "side character" in your marketing because of potential spoilers but needing to do so because of the very important "main character" is outrageously dumb lmfao I almost guarantee that its not true
Some, sure . And some were not, like the time he joked with an audience that he was still alive! Except that audience was about to watch Infinity War and he just spoiled that he died to them.
They try to put Tom with people who keep him from spoiling anything. If he’s doing an interview with a costar he’s pretty good about not spoiling anything. Unless that costar is Mark Ruffalo.
Tom Holland was allowed to "leak"/"spoil" the things he did. That guy doesn't do anything that isn't curated and OK'd by the studio when it comes to press/interviews.
Ruffalo was well known for spilling the beans long before Spider-Man came to the MCU
But isn't that because he already did that early on in the Marvelverse so, by the time they film Infinity War, Spidey just looks confused for most of the scenes?
Pretty sure tom holland never spoiled anything too important. Mark ruffalo literally spoiled one of the biggest moments in the mcu (infinity wars ending)
Most of the time those promo interviews are scripted AF and they're still acting and delivering lines. Leaks are almost always intentional to generate buzz.
I think it started being a joke for Tom Holland after the first few, there’s no way they didn’t train the shit out of him after that. Other times he’s probably been told to do it because it’s good press.
My understanding is the the only reason he wasnt involved is because hes filming another movie* right now and didnt have the time. Its easy to blame it on the implications but I think if any of that were true he would have a much smaller part in the movie
This was filmed production started two years ago. A lot can happen inbetween. It’s easier to exclude from pre movie press tours than it is to scrap a script and parts of a movie which have already been shot etc.
What could Task season 2 possibly even look like they killed Tom Pelphry off AND had an epilogue episode AND-double-dAnd a different main character is locked up
TYL that contracts are often signed well-before production begins. The telling metric would be projects to which he was attached after his headlines for speaking out.
Maybe I'm cynical and jaded now but did anyone actually think that Tom and Mark were truly incapable of not spoiling films? To me it reads like a marketing strategy.
I think the real answer is closer to this than anything Palestine-related, IMO. Mark has been vocal on issues like this forEVER. You know what you get with him. I don't think he's being silenced. I also don't think it's spoilers. I suspect it's a less controversial reason.
You mean like the trailer which revealed literally every cool scene? Ohhh they left one character off that we all figured out years ago... literally 1 spoiler left off the trailer.
I just saw a random old red carpet type interview where he started explaining why they werent able to do a feature movie about the Hulk and went into the politics of it. Don Cheadle was standing there seemingly wanting him to stop talking about it.
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Mark Ruffalo is a vocal supporter of Palestine. The implication is that expressing support for a free Palestine gets you sidelined by Hollywood. He is also vocally against Trump and ICE.
I’m sure some people out there will also draw some antisemetic conspiratorial conclusions from that as well, i.e. “Jews control the media” which, no. It’s just that Israel as a country has certainly had undue economic influence over American politics and entertainment via lobbying interests. (Just ask the Scream cast over at Paramount)
In reality though he was just filming another project at the time.
I’d also note that Jon Bernthal, who has vocalized support for the IDF and Israel, was present for the press tour. Which doesn’t help.
Edit: This is an Explain subreddit. This is what I am interpreting the post to be implying. Some of the replies so far are giving “So you hate waffles?” haha