Best Of: Mark Ruffalo / Jeffrey Wright

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🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Mark Ruffalo is nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in Poor Things. He plays a hilarious debauched lawyer who seduces Emma Stone's character. Ruffalo has also appeared in Marvel movies as the Incredible Hulk. For that role he had to act in a motion capture suit. "It's the man-canceling suit. It makes you look big where you want to look small, and small where want to look big," he says.

Also, we hear from Jeffrey Wright. He's up for an Oscar for best actor for his role in American Fiction, where he plays a novelist who's frustrated with the publishing industry's expectations of Black authors. He cynically writes a book under a pseudonym that's full of clichés, like violence and poverty — and it's a hit.

Maureen Corrigan reviews an off-beat bestselling Japanese mystery series.

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0:16.0	From W.HYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Sam Brigger Infatory Terry Gross. Today Mark Ruffalo. He's nominated for an
0:25.8	Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in Poor Things. He plays a hilarious
0:30.4	debauched lawyer who seduces Emma Stone's character.
0:34.3	Ruffalo's also appeared in Marvel movies as The Incredible Hulk.
0:38.2	For that role he had to act in a motion capture suit.
0:41.2	It's the man cancelling suit. you know, it makes you look big
0:44.8	everywhere you want to look small and small everywhere you want to look big.
0:48.1	Also we hear from Jeffrey Wright, he's up for an Oscar for best Actor for his role in American fiction, where he plays a novelist who's frustrated with the publishing industry's expectations of black authors.
1:00.0	He cynically writes a book under a pseudonym that's full of cliches like drugs, violence, and poverty, and it's a hit.
1:08.0	Plus, Maureen Corrigan reviews an offbeat best-selling Japanese mystery series.
1:14.6	That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
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