The Incredible Hulk’s Louis Leterrier Recalls Fighting With William Hurt On The Marvel Movie: ‘You Don’t Know Anything About Actors’

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In June 2008, one month after Iron Man launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Incredible Hulk, the second of the Marvel movies in order, arrived, which marked the Green Goliath’s return to the big screen five years after Ann Lee’s Hulk. Just like in that 2003 movie and so many Hulk stories from the comics, Edward Norton’s Bruce Banner was on the run from William Hurt’s Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross. In real life, though Hurt evidently clashed quite a bit with director Louis Leterrier. This included one point where the latter recalled the former once saying that he didn’t “know anything about actors.”

Leterrier reflected on his experience making The Incredible Hulk while doing a Watchalong video for Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast. When they got to the sequence when Ross, Tim Roth’s Emil Blonsky and their special forces team were hunting Banner down in the bottling factory, Horowitz asked Letterier if Hurt, who passed away in 2022, was “tough” to get on Leterrier’s “side,” and the filmmaker started off by saying it was difficult to convince him that they weren’t just making a “paint by the numbers” comic book movie. He then stated about the late actor:

He also didn’t want the mustache to act him out. The size of the mustache was a discussion. But sometimes he and I clashed. You have two types of actors… three types, I guess. You got your partners, you got your best friends that you have to cajole all day, and you have the people that like to have these arguments. They feed off that. That’s how he worked.

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