As the foppish, mustachioed scalawag Duncan Wedderburn,Mark Ruffalois one of the most entertaining elements ofPoor Things.
I thought the script was amazing, but also, it really scared me.
I was like, Are you sure this is the part you want me to read for?
Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in ‘Poor Things’.Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures
Ruffalo tells EW, in a joint interview with costarWillem Dafoe.
I read it and I was like, I don’t know if I could pull this off.
Gladly, I was proven wrong by Willem.
Dafoes constant encouragement helped soothe Ruffalos nerves regarding the more slapstick aspects of his character.
I havent done a lot of comedy, Ruffalo notes.
He was egging me on all the time.
Dafoe adds, He was making me laugh all the time!
Ruffalo continues, I was a total sucker for it.
I just only wanted to make him laugh, and so I was pushing it more and more.
He would be like, Okay, youre really going to do that?
“We had many fittings and worked through a lot of the ideas together, Waddington tells EW.
Most interesting to me was that the postures create a sense of pompousness and self-importance.
Poor Things directed by Yorgos Lanthimos is playing now in limited release.
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