De acordo com o diretor Taika Waititi, bem a tempo de filmar 1 .
1 E com isso eu obviamente quero dizer, enquanto estiver em Sakaar.
Em uma entrevista com a CBR, Taika Waititi revelou que o tempo de Hulk em Sakaar permitiu que ele se sentisse mais confortável em sua pele verde e aprendesse sobre si mesmo:
Na mesma nota, algumas das características do novo "bachelor pad" de Hulk, ou seja, o ofurô, não são apenas para ele mergulhar, mas usado por Hulk para ter momentos de introspecção.Yeah, that was really, just like with Chris, just wanting make it more interesting for Mark to play that character, because in the films he just said one or two words and just destroyed everything, and that was the version of Hulk I think that everybody knows.
But this version -- the smarter version -- it's just become so much more interesting and engaging, because he's been the Hulk for two years. He's a hero on this planet and he's had more time to just sit with himself and feel comfortable in his own skin.
Thor: Ragnarok’s Smarter Hulk Is ‘Comfortable in His Own Skin’
Now you can see Hulk sitting still and being kind of like a big silverback. There’s there’s this moment when he’s in the hot tub in his apartment – he just feels like General [Colonel] Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. He’s just sitting there, just contemplating things and you can feel him probably ruminating over all sorts of stuff inside his head. And that introspective, that very still version of Hulk, I think is way more fascinating than the guy that just destroys everything.
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