Mark Ruffalo, the new Incredible Hulk, has shared his thoughts about taking over from his pal Ed Norton in Joss Whedon’s upcoming The Avengers movie.

Talking to Entertainment Weekly, he said…

“It was very exciting — and I realized I had some pretty big shoes to fill. Those were my heroes up there! I was a comic book fan growing up. I loved The Hulk and The Avengers — it’s just strange to be entering that world as an actor. I never would have imagined that before.”

Ruffalo then talked about the Hulk…

“He’s a guy struggling with two sides of himself — the dark and the light — and everything he does in his life is filtered through issues of control. I grew up on the Bill Bixby TV series, which I thought was a really nuanced and real human way to look at The Hulk. I like that the part has those qualities.”

And finally, he revealed what it was like to replace Norton the way he did…

“I’m a friend of Ed’s, and yeah, that wasn’t a great way for all that to go down. But the way I see it is that Ed has bequeathed this part to me. I look at it as my generation’s Hamlet.”

The Avengers is scheduled to hit cinemas on May 4, 2012.

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