The Learning Is The Heavy

For The First 10 Minutes After You Meet Them, They Have The Wattage And Charisma Of Movie Stars. Then You Have A Coffee With Them And You Realize We're All The Same, We're All Just People. All Of The Actors In The Avengers Are So Nice. Marvel Has These Code Names For Projects And The Code Name For The Avengers Was Group Hug. It Felt Very Much Like A Group Hug On Set.

Our Job Is To Represent The Truth Of Human Nature, Whether You're Playing A Tender Love Story That's Set In A Coffee Shop Or Whether You're In 'the Avengers,' Which Is Set In A Manhattan Which Is Exploding.

I Don't Think I've Ever Been Face To Face With Pure Evil, So I Don't Think I've Ever Seen It With My Own Eyes. But I Do Understand Human Frailty And I Do Understand The Capacity Of People To Be Intermittently Noble And Virtuous And Fallible.

Ancient Societies Had Anthropomorphic Gods: A Huge Pantheon Expanding Into Centuries Of Dynastic Drama; Fathers And Sons, Martyred Heroes, Star-crossed Lovers, The Deaths Of Kings - Stories That Taught Us Of The Danger Of Hubris And The Primacy Of Humility.

The 60s Had Completely Changed How People Conceived Of Their Lives And Their Habits And Their Identities.