1709629792 Mark Ruffalo began sculpting during his semester abroad

Mark Ruffalo began sculpting during his semester abroad

Mark Ruffalo has his hobby when he's not playing!

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After completing a series of projects (Poor Creatures, All the Light We Cannot See and Mickey 17) in early 2023, the Marvel actor felt burned out and decided to take a break. Year of rest. During his break, he devoted himself to an activity that he really wanted to explore: sculpture.

“During that time I thought, 'What does Mark, the inner version of you, want to do?' “I want to sculpt,” he recalls to GQ.

Mark Ruffalo began sculpting during his semester abroad

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The comedian took up ceramics and took a “serious class” where the other students didn't treat him like a celebrity. One of the first works he created was a ceramic self-portrait of his skull with a hole where a benign tumor had been removed in 2001. He later took living sculpture classes taught by a “Russian-trained, intense professor who…” I'm not kidding.” “I have the impression that acting is a type of sculpture,” he adds. When you look at an eye, it is actually so different from your idea of ​​an eye. What I learn remains to be seen.”

The Foxcatcher star admitted that her ceramics teacher kept texting her, urging her to return to the studio to make one last piece before her year abroad ends in a few weeks. Mark Ruffalo will star in an HBO television series based on the same universe as Mare of Easttown.

Mark Ruffalo is nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Poor Creatures.