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Mark Ruffalo and Chris Hemsworth have been hunting for joint project since Thor: Ragnarok. The actors first starred opposite each other as Bruce Banner/Hulk and Thor in 2012's The Avengers, but they didn't get any significant one-on-one screen time together until Thor's third solo movie. ”Thor: Ragnarok was the first time our characters spoke to each other properly," Hemsworth explained to Empire magazine. "In that setting, we had a very different opportunity than we had in other Marvel films.” Although they both appeared together in subsequent Marvel films, such as 2018's Avengers: Infinity War and 2019's Avengers: Endgame, the duo set out to find a different project that they could sink their teeth into. After several years of searching, the Marvel stars found Crime 101, a crime thriller in which Hemsworth plays a high-end jewellery thief with Ruffalo's detective on his tail. ”We had so much chemistry, and I just love the guy, so every time I saw him, I was like, 'When the f**k are we going to do something?! We gotta find this thing.' And then this was it," Ruffalo shared. The Now You See Me star noted that it was "exciting" to work with his longtime friend as completely different characters. ”When I first saw (Chris), the hair was a different colour. His voice was different. Everything had transformed. And it was exciting," Ruffalo recalled. "It was like, 'Okay, now we're in this world. Now we're cooking. This is what I wanted.’” The actors are still a part of the MCU. Ruffalo is set to return as Hulk in Spider-Man: Brand New Day in July, while Hemsworth will be seen as Thor once again in Avengers: Doomsday in December. Crime 101 will be released in cinemas on 13 February.
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