Bana Impressed By Hulk F/X
Scifi.com — Eric Bana, who plays the Hulk’s alter ego, Bruce Banner, in Hulk, told SCI FI Wire that he was blown away by the film’s special effects and the humanistic quality of the title character.
“When I saw the film, that was the thing that I was most thrilled about,” Bana said in an interview while promoting the film.
“I felt like they had totally managed to drag character into that [computer-aniamted] figure. That was what blew me away. Not only was it beautiful—I thought the effects were actually beautiful in the film—but I thought that they had really actually put character into it.”
So much character was put into the Hulk, Bana said, that he noticed elements of his own likeness in the big green guy.
“It was kind of eerie,” he said. “There’s a couple of moments there on those close-ups, especially when he’s face to face with Betty [Jennifer Connelly], I think, out in the woods. There’s a couple of moments where I went, ‘Yeah, I can see Bruce Banner in there.’”
Bana, who is contracted to return for two potential sequels, said that he’s not worried about being typecast as a comic-book character.
“The Hulk is the Hulk, and I get to kind of share the limelight significantly with a lot of different elements,” he said.
“It’s not like you just see me the whole time. So I see it as something quite different from the Superman kind of thing, where whoever is Superman is kind of Superman. So I wasn’t that concerned. And then when I saw the film I was suitably happy about how [much of an] ensemble it is.”
Universal Pictures’ Hulk opens June 20.
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