Out doing the promotional rounds for the new Reese Witherspoon comedy "Just Like Heaven", actor Mark Ruffalo talked about his roles in two upcoming highly anticipated flicks based around controversial real life figures.
Later this year he'll be seen in "All the King's Men", Steve Zailian's adaptation of the classic Robert Penn Warren political novel about the rise and fall of a charismatic Southern politician. Ruffalo told Latino Review that his role is of "the doctor (Adam Stanton) who assassinates him (Struck), who is Kate Winslet's (Ann Stanton) brother. I knew I wanted to go into something a little bit different - that's a character part. I have four scenes in it, but it's from a great novel. It's one the great American political novels and it has an amazing group of people, Sean Penn who's one of my heroes and James Gandolfini, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins and Patricia Clarkson."
He shot that project around the same time as 'Heaven' and is now at work on "Zodiac", based on the infamous real events of the hunt for the serial killer. Ruffalo says "I play Dave Toschi who is the head inspector for the SFPD. It's as true as I have ever seen a movie be to the actual events. The guy Robert Graysmith who wrote The Zodiac Unmasked, it's based a lot on his stuff but David Fincher has gone out and interviewed everybody, the cops and everyone had to sign off on the script. He has 2500 pounds of information, his murder book for it is, when we showed it to a SFPD detective, he said, "my god we couldn't even get that much information," which is why they never caught him cause the guy was killing on county lines so there were five different police counties [and] so there was no jurisdiction, it was driving everyone crazy and it was really a mess so that's kind of what the movie was about."
Thanks to 'Kellvin'.
