Mark Ruffalo has struck once more!

Throughout a Q&A about his profession on the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant on Sunday, the latest Oscar nominee appeared to substantiate that he will likely be reprising his efficiency because the Hulk in Marvel’s “Captain America: Courageous New World.” Requested by moderator Anne Thompson if he would subsequent seem within the 2025 function, Ruffalo nodded his head and stated, “Yeah.”

“Are you allowed to speak about that?” Thompson requested.

“Yeah,” Ruffalo stated. “It’s going to be nice!”

Alas, in accordance with a number of sources, Ruffalo will not be truly going to be in “Courageous New World.” As an alternative, he misspoke, pondering he was agreeing that “Courageous New World” is one in every of Marvel’s subsequent movies, not that he was going to be in it.

Nonetheless, Ruffalo’s one phrase reply went viral on social media on Monday, particularly because it performed into widespread fan expectations that Harrison Ford — who’s enjoying President Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross within the film reverse Anthony Mackie’s titular superhero — will even remodel into Ross’ comedian e book alter ego, Pink Hulk. (Marvel, nonetheless, has not confirmed that plot improvement, and when Ford was requested in June 2023 whether or not he would turn into the crimson rage monster, Ford answered, “What’s Pink Hulk?”)

The misunderstanding additional provides to Ruffalo’s legendary fame for Marvel-related PR gaffes. He by accident spoiled the ending of “Avengers: Infinity Warfare” throughout an interview with “Good Morning America” in July 2017. He by accident live-streamed the primary 20 minutes of “Thor: Ragnarok” on Fb from the world premiere of the movie in October 2017. And he by accident spoiled the ending of “Avengers: Endgame” in April 2019.

Throughout the Q&A at SBIFF, Ruffalo did communicate at size about how he’s taken the characters of Hulk and his delicate mannered alter ego Bruce Banner from being at battle with one another to discovering a technique to stay collectively as one — an arc he pitched to Marvel studio chief Kevin Feige after Feige requested him, “What would you do in the event you had a standalone Hulk film?”

“I stated, ‘I’d prefer to take him from this raging maniac to this built-in character,’” Ruffalo stated. “And he stated, ‘OK, we’ll try this over the course of 4 films. We’ll by no means offer you a standalone “Hulk.”‘” As the group reacted to Ruffalo’s assertion, Ruffalo turned to the viewers. “I don’t imply to burst anybody’s bubble, however that’s not taking place.”