Mark Ruffalo says he would ‘dream’ of how to punch Ryan Reynolds in…
Rumor has it, Mark Ruffalo was subconsciously considering about methods to punch his co-star in the face.
The actor, 57, confessed that while filming the 2022 sci-fi action movie, “Adam Project,” he used an odd method to hit Ryan Reynolds.
“I had a dream that that’s what the punch should look like, and I just did what I did in my dream,” Ruffalo revealed while speaking to GQ. “And we did it, and they were all laughing, and [director Shawn Levy’s] like, ‘Well, let’s do it again, but I think we have it.’”
Mark Ruffalo attends the staged studying of “All the President’s Men” to profit The Center at West Park at Guild Hall on August 25, 2025 in East Hampton, New York. Getty Images
In the film, a scene confirmed Reynolds’ character, who was a future version of Ruffalo’s son, punch his dad.
Ruffalo’s character then hits him again by leaping up into the air and kicking his leg up behind him as he strikes ahead to strike his co-star in the face.
“That was one of those moments where the spontaneity just — it was right,” shared the “13 Going on 30” alum.
Ryan Reynolds, Walker Scobell, Zoe Saldana, Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo in “The Adam Project.” ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection
And Ruffalo was a one take surprise, replying that he only had to hit Reynolds “once.”
Earlier this month, the “Avengers” star also mirrored on working with another co-star, Woody Harrelson, while taking pictures “Now You See Me.”
Ruffalo admitted that he as soon as rescued Harrelson, 64, from a bar fight while filming in Louisiana.
“We were shooting ‘Now You See Me’ in New Orleans, completely on the streets,” he recalled while on Harrelson and Ted Danson’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast. “Totally wild.”
The scene in query from “The Adam Project.” BACKGRID
“Capturing stuff on a long lens, getting dragged into bars during the middle of a scene, like in the middle of Mardi Gras,” he added.
Ruffalo and Harrelson determined to pop right into a crowded bar for a drink after an extended day of filming the 2013 heist movie – which turned out to be a mistake.
“It was a packed place,” the “Task” star explained to Danson, 77. “And a woman came up to him and she said, ‘Oh my God, I love you so much.’ Woody put his hand on her arm, and he said, ‘Oh, thank you. Thank you, darling.’”
Ryan Reynolds and Mark Ruffalo in “The Adam Project.” Netflix
“And this guy comes over and he pushes her outta the way,” Ruffalo continued, “and he shoves Woody.”
Danson, who has been good pals with Harrelson since he joined the solid of “Cheers” in 1985, shook his head at their visitor’s story.
“Oh, bad bad,” the “Good Place” actor muttered. “Not good.”
A scene from “The Adam Project.” ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection
“Bad,” Ruffalo concurred. “Because Woody’s first response is not ‘shove someone back,’ but ‘immediately punch them in the face.’”
“Which is the right thing to do, by the way,” he continued. “It’s the absolute right thing to do. But then a whole melee broke out in this bar. I was in the middle of it, and it was getting to become a whole thing. And I grabbed you.”
Harrelson corroborated his “Now You See Me” co-star’s recollection.
Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Walker Scobell in “The Adam Project.” ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection
“I grabbed you and I pulled you out,” Ruffalo explained. “Because I was like, this could be fun, but it also could go so disastrously wrong because you and I might be able to handle ourselves, but the rest of the folks we were with… I don’t think so.”
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