Robert Downey Jr. & Mark Ruffalo | Actors on Actors

That whole monologue from Mark Ruffalo on how RDJ has done it all and doesn't have to prove anything to anyone is honestly some beautiful stuff to hear from a friend.

And thus begins the most iconic year of Actors on Actors!!!

I love how they're both uncomfortable with praise so they keep bouncing it back towards the other :D

I’m so grateful RDJ is sober and healthy and that we still get to have him around. So many people lose that battle to their addiction.

Incredibly rare to see friendship captured so well on film. Not protecting themselves at all from the other, just being genuine. Especially around that 20 minute mark.

Mark blushing at Downey's compliments and praise is adorable 🥰

Mark Ruffalo is so dear, so sincere, so kind, so wonderful, so talented, just give him his Oscar already .😊

The original cast or OG Avengers friendship is what made those ealier Marvel movies so much fun. You could just feel the love and respect they had for one another. This was a great interview or better yet, a great conversation between friends.

If more people saw poor things they’d realise how absolutely slept upon Mark Ruffalo’s performance is.

The Actors on Actors where the two have been co-stars either once before and reunite or multiple times and are good friends are always the best ones to me cause it feels more like we’re just watching a regular conversation than an interview.

I love when rdj stops cracking jokes and becomes serious for a second. He’s so well spoken and smart and appreciative of his colleagues and says so many interesting and insightful things. Yeah he is probably Tony Stark forever, for us and for the next generation and he probably realises this. But the fact that he keeps pushing himself higher and higher when as Mark said there’s nothing left to prove is admirable and inspiring. He was so open about his doubts to act out of marvel again and he did a freaking amazing job. He deserves this Oscar as no one else this year. And coming back to the old theme, his story is undoubtedly the greatest redemption arc a man could ask for.

44:05 I loved how Mark said “I didn’t see you Robert Downey Jr” because I watched the entire movie not knowing Strauss was Robert Downey Jr until afterwards. He was just that good. A phenomenal performance it was…the stillness and subtlety of it all was just impeccably orchestrated. Well done…just well done, sir.

Not only RDJ complimented Mark Ruffalo, but he also praised Emma Stone and Robert Pattinson, says how much of a film admirer he is. Big fan of both RDJ and MR.

The mark of a deep friendship between two people is when they don't have to hyper-act around each other. I love that RDJ is his true self with Mark, not having to worry about putting a Tony Stark personality when he's with acquaintances, hard relate and love them both.

There’s something about this conversation that makes me want to cry. They’re both so beautiful and talented and humble and don’t realize how wonderful they individually are (to an extent). I’ve loved them both for so so long and seeing them speak about their long lasting friendship, praising the other, etc. is just so wonderful. ❤

I was on the brink of tears with this one. Not just for the genuine compassion and reverence these two have for each other, but for their heartfelt love of film/theatre.

RDJ didn't just start the MCU but you can see he inspired the other actors , attracted them to the projects, and then got them all going and wanting to be on their A game. Thank you RDJ - that run where each MCU movie after another kept amping up the hype train was some of the best movie going experiences I can remember at the theater

Such an intelligent, empathetic, genuine conversation between two fantastic actors and people. Really great episode.

Mark telling RDJ he has nothing to prove to anyone was just beautiful. Wow, what a huge conversation filled with heart and genuine care. ❤

The part where Mark compliments Robert on how in Oppenheimer, he plays a character that is so different from what he usually does, I think that holds a lot of significance. Despite proving to us countless times that he is an actor who is more than capable in his craft, Downey still is ready to push himself and do more characters, it strongly lies in in his core to be an actor. I think the most frightening part of being an actor is when people start looking at your characters as a version of your off-screen persona, like the time when boundaries between him and his character iron man was so blurred in general, it was evident that nothing would be able to surpass his time as iron man. When an actor plays a role, they want to be recognized as that character in that particular film, then move on to the next part. But I can't even imagine the kind of turmoil a passionate actor like him had to go through when he played this character for such a long period of time. The magnanimity of tony stark was befitting to Downey's real life personality. He basically made that character as an extension of himself. I love tony stark to death, he has been an important figure throughout my teenage life and adulthood, his character is almost reverential to most of our generation. It was very difficult to evade the imposition of this character on to Downey's real life personality. To have one singular act counted has your legacy as a thought can be scary. But then he turns around to play Levi Strauss and it was phenomenal, easily one of the best performances of the year. So when Ruffalo mentions that he delivered that performance with all the details packed in with a crisp, basically us audiences not seeing the character for HIM but for what the character is, I think its a huge compliment. Its true that his cultural footprint will be huge as a part of the marvel franchise, but it won't be limited to that only. He has delivered some of the best performances that need to be revisited again and again, and I think that is essentially what makes him one of the finest actors around the world.