SHE-HULK Series Amusingly Addressed Edward Norton's Hulk and Mark Ruffalo Talks About It

The most recent episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law amusingly addressed Edward Norton’s version of hulk in a little gag. This is the first time that the MCU acknowledged the fact that Bruce Banner was once played by a different actor in the MCU.

In the scene, Bruce Banner is talking to Jennifer Walters about his fight with Abomination in the original Hulk movie, and one of the things that Banner said during the conversation was, “It happened so long ago that I’m a completely different person now… literally.”

That offered a fun laugh. Ruffalo recently talked to Entertainment Weekly about the moment and he mentioned that he’s had a conversation with Edward Norton about Hulk saying:

"I think it's really funny. It's just the reality that we all are often dancing around, but it's true. I actually joked with Ed about this. I was like, 'It's like our generation's Hamlet. Everyone's going to get a shot at it.' And there'll probably be another couple before it's all over. People will be like, 'Remember when the Hulk used to look like Mark Ruffalo? Now it looks like Timothée Chalamet.'"

"The cool thing about this world is that it could just be anything. Five years from now it could totally morph into anything, whatever's pertinent at the time. I almost see him going back to 'Berserker Hulk' or 'World War Hulk'. It could go anywhere. That's the exciting part — I've played five different versions from beginning to now, and that's kept it interesting for me and I hope interesting for other people."

It’ll certainly be cool and interesting to see how Hulk’s story arc continues to move forward and evolve in the MCU in the coming years. When previously talking about his version of Hulk, Norton said:

"The Hulk was… I felt sad that what [director] Louis [Leterrier] and I set out to do, in terms of taking more of a Chris Nolan approach to making something that was a little more dark and serious, they ended up sort of neutering. I wanted to make a big CGI movie and learn and see stuff. I grew up on the Hulk, I loved it. And actually people really liked the movie. You know, kids love the movie. It's another one of those things: the amount of noise that people whip up around it. It's so silly. I couldn't be more happy to have been part of that whole tradition."

It is what it is. I like Norton’s Hulk! But, I’m ultimately fine with how things turned out with the character. Are you excited about the future of Hulk?