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Mark Ruffalo Interview for The Kids Are All Right – Celebrity Interviews
Now the 42 year-old actor plays his strangest role to date, as Paul, a sperm donor to lesbian parents, in the independent comedy/drama The Kids Are All Right. He shared with us what he thought of the idea of playing one.
“It’s great, at $90 a pop, I wish I had known about that when I was young, struggling, starving actor,” Ruffalo says, “They didn’t have a sperm bank in the Latino neighborhood I was living at though.”
We asked Ruffalo if he himself personally knew of any sperm donors.
“No, not that I know of,” Mark answers, “[Co-writer] Stuart [Blumberg] was pretty much the first person that I knew of that I met who actually has done that. I talked to him. It pretty much came out of his experience. The forms that you have to fill out, they want like successful, they want somebody who they can sell the sperm with. So I just talked to him and he gave me what I thought I needed to know. Most of it just comes second nature.”
Mark explained to us how he embodied playing a total stranger, who fathered two children, coming into their lives for the first time.
“Well, I just kind of imagined what it would be like if I had two kids,” Ruffalo says, “I had the script as a guide. A lot of it’s implied in the script, so that gave me a lot to work with. The kids I was working with are easily accessible and lovable kids and young people. I have my own kids, so I understand how deeply the thought of your offspring dives into your heart and that’s pretty much all I needed to start on my way.”
“We didn’t know each other,” he adds, “We were sort of thrown together because of that and because they’re such good actors, that really worked for this movie. The getting to know each other process was happening as we were shooting the……
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