Tim Blake Nelson Compares Working on Original 'Hulk' and Working in the Marvel Cinematic Universe | THR Video
Tim Blake Nelson talks to THR at San Diego Comic-Con about going through the seven stages of grief before stepping into his villain role for 'Captain America: Brave New World.' Plus, he compares what it was like working on the original 2008 'Hulk' and working in the Marvel Cinematic Universe now.
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00:00What has it been like returning to the MCU with this movie?
00:03I had given up on getting to play the leader because it's been, at this point, almost 20 years.
00:12And there was a lot of despair involved.
00:17You know, I went through the seven stages of grief over those decades.
00:24But now I can say I'm glad it took this long because it has made the character more interesting.
00:32And I'm glad that I'm old enough now and have enough experiences in my life to be able to play this villain in this way,
00:42where he and I have the life experience to justify everything he does.
00:50Because the most interesting villains are justified.
00:53How did working on a Marvel film in 2008 compare to working on this movie now after just so many years of major Marvel movies?
01:02Marvel was really working to define itself in incredibly compelling ways back then.
01:11And being on the original Hulk in 2008 and watching the artists figure out how it was all going to work,
01:27and I'm talking about everyone from Kevin Feige, who was overseeing it, to Louis Leterrier, the director,
01:35the collaboration with Edward Norton and Bill Hurd and Tim Roth.
01:42It was terra incognita.
01:46It was like the cartoons where the character is laying the railroad track in front of the locomotive while it's hurtling forward.
02:00And now we're over 20 years in to the MCU and it's this unprecedented phenomenon in the history of cinema.
02:12You've never had an entire universe over this number of films with such a wide gamut of characters that is ever expanding in this art form.
02:30And to be able to come back into it at this stage has been incredible.