Mark Ruffalo remembers his dream about punching Ryan Reynolds

Mark Ruffalo has shared the strange way he came up with the way he wanted to bat Ryan Reynolds on the screen.

Looking back at a scene from the 2022 film, The Adam ProjectRuffalo revealed in an interview of GQ posted via YouTube on Friday, October 17, that he had a “dream” about how the collision should go.

In the time-travel film, Ruffalo played Louis Reed, the father of Reynolds’ character Adam Reed. In the scene in question, Louis punched Adam in the face.

“It was written that way and we were doing a rehearsal and I had a dream that this is what the punch was supposed to look like, and I just did what I did in my dream,” Ruffalo, 57, explained. “And we did it, and they all laughed, and [director Shawn Levy’s] like, “Well, let’s do it again, but I think we got it.”

The actor added: “That was one of those moments where the spontaneity just – it was right.”

During the interview, Ruffalo was asked how much it took to get the punch scene with Reynolds in the can. The actor said he only had to perform it “once.”

Ruffalo co-starred alongside Reynolds Jennifer Garner, who famously portrayed his love interest in the hit 2004 film, 13 Goes through 30.

Speak with Good morning America in March 2022, Ruffalo and Garner joked about what it was like playing Reynolds’ parents in the film.

“First of all, he doesn’t make his bed,” 53-year-old Garner joked. “We just love that guy. He’s heaven. Ryan Reynolds wore every hat. He produced, he wrote a bunch of this stuff, he killed it every day… He’s a pure movie star in this movie.”

For his part, Ruffalo also joined in the fun. “He’s great,” he said, before joking, “I’m proud of my boy.”

Earlier this week, Ruffalo opened up about another physical altercation involving a movie costar during a performance on Woody Harrelson And by Ted Danson Podcast ‘Where everyone knows your name’ on Tuesday, October 14.

During the podcast appearance, the actor recalled intervening to save his own Now you see me costar Harrelson from getting into a bar fight.

“We were shooting Now you see me in New Orleans, completely on the streets. Totally wild,” Ruffalo explained. “Capturing things with a long lens, being dragged into the bars in the middle of a scene, like in the middle of Mardi Gras.”

He continued, “We were out one night and it was a packed house. And a woman came up to him and said, ‘Oh my God, I love you so much.’ Woody put his hand on her arm and said, “Oh, thank you. Thank you, dear. And this guy comes up to her and pushes her out of the way, and he pushes Woody.”

According to Ruffalo, the interaction “broke out a whole melee” in the bar.

“I grabbed you and pulled you out,” Ruffalo recalled telling Harrelson. “Because I thought, ‘This could be fun, but it could also go so disastrously wrong because you and I might be able to handle ourselves, but the rest of the people we were with… I don’t think so.'”