(Kevin Feige): There's some other people-- (loud cheers from audience)
- (Feige): --that have made the trip-- - (Hardwick): I like this groove.
(Feige): --that have come from various far-flung locales to say hello to you.
They may be getting closer and closer as we speak! (loud cheers from audience)
♪ (music intro: Michael Jackson - "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough") ♪
(loud cheers)
♪ Lovely is the feeling now ♪
♪ Fever, temperatures rising now ♪
♪ Power is the force the vow ♪ (music fades to quiet)
(Feige): Next we're bringing out-- do you want to meet Jeremy Renner?
(loud cheers) ♪ So get closer ♪
(Feige): Hawkeye! ♪ To my body now ♪
(Feige): Hawkeye!
♪ Just love me ♪
(Feige): Awwww, yes! ♪ Till you don't know how ♪
♪ Keep on with the force don't stop Don't stop 'til you get enough (4x) ♪
(Feige): Bruce Banner is here! Mark Ruffalo! (audience cheers)
♪ Touch me and I feel on fire ♪
(Feige): The mighty Thor, Chris Hemsworth! (loud cheers)
♪ Ain’t nothing like a love desire ♪
The former Agent of S.H.E.I.L.D. , Maria Hill, Cobie Smulders! (loud cheers)
The former Director of S.H.E.I.L.D., Nick Fury, Sam Jackson!
Captain America, Chris Evans! (loud cheering)
(Downey Jr): All right! We've also got some new heavy-hitters
joining this long bench of talent. We would like to welcome to the Avengers family
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Quicksilver!
(loud cheers)
You loved him as Jarvis, you must now know him as Vision--
Paul Bettany!
The man we've all been waiting for: Ultron himself, James Spader!
And last but not least, the recipient of the second white rose,
Elizabeth Olson as Scarlet Witch!
(Chris Hardwick): All right.
(Downey Jr): Be seated, be seated.
(loud cheers)
(Hardwick): This is good! This is good! This is supposed to happen! (laughs)
Welcome, Avengers! (audience cheers)
Rob Downey Jr, first of all, may I please compliment you on
your excellent taste in music and the Michael Jackson song
that you came out to. (cheers)
It's an honorable groove.
So we'll just go down the line and talk to everyone.
How do you feel, having been Iron Man for a while, as you probably know 'cause you're you,
how does it feel being here at Comic-Con, Iron Man, anything?
(Downey Jr): Uh, (loud cheers from audience)
It just, it just keeps getting better, and I'm so excited that we're all here.
This is the longest bench of talent I've ever been a part of, and we've
got a real nice movie coming up for you guys next year. (cheers)
(Hardwick): In terms of all the films you've been in, this is probably the first time
you're actually, I mean you're genuinely part of this family of people now, that's ongoing.
(Downey Jr): Yeah, and I become a little less significant every time,
which is just fine. (audience laughs) 'Cause they're all so damn good!
(Audience member): You're the best, Robert!
(Downey Jr): You're probably right. (laughs)
- (Hardwick): Hey Jeremy, how's it going? - (Renner): Hey man, great!
(loud cheers)
(Audience members): Hawkeye, Hawkeye, Hawkeye!
- (Renner): Yeah, I'm wearing pants! - (Man in crowd): Hawkeye!!
(Hardwick): So, now that you've done this a couple of times, does this seem like
old hat to you, or is it comfortable, or still seem exciting and new?
(Renner): Well, it's always thrilling, man. It's always like a, uh, a new--
--like if it's a Friday next week, ah it's gonna be exciting next Friday.
It's always a brand-new, amazing thing. I'm glad to be here. Very honored. (cheers)
(Hardwick): Every day that--(audience cheers) --every day you go to work,
do you go, "This is strange that I get paid to do this... every day"?
- (Renner): What I'm doing now?
- (Hardwick): No, not this. You're not getting paid for this. No, no. This is free.
(Downey Jr): Uh, Jeremy was promised compensation. We're gonna have to discuss this.
(Hardwick): We're gonna dp a Kickstarter! We're gonna Kickstart Jeremy's panel. (laughter)
But I mean just, you know, getting on with this group of people, and
essentially being a superhero for a job, I mean, is this what you envisioned when
you were like, "I wanna be an actor"? Like, is this anywhere near what you thought?
(Renner): Uh, no. No, no, it's been a wonderful blessing. Meeting this guy over here,
he's the one that convinced me and washed my car in a thong, and said
"Are you going to be Hawkeye, "Please?" (audience laughter)
(Hardwick): All right, Michael Besa, when's he next? (Renner): He did do that, he did do that.
He washed my car in a thong, it was amazing, I thought it was. I don't wanna see him
wearing that shit. Um no, it was easy to want to join. It wasn't very hard
convincing me to do it. I never envisioned it, but I'm glad to be part of this
amazing group of humans sitting at this table. (audience cheers)
(Hardwick): Mark Ruffalo, we did the panel for the--(audience cheers)--When the Avengers
was first announced, there really wasn't a whole lot of footage and we were at New York
Comic-Con, and you were on the panel, and at the time you were like, "I don't really
understand all this Comic-Con stuff and what this is," and you did it, and since
then, it completely blew up. Did this exceed your expectations?
(Ruffalo): Ah... Slightly. (audience laughs)
By a huge margin, and they don't
treat me like this at home, that's for sure when I want to talk. (laughter, cheers)
That--that's really-- - (Woman in crowd): We love you! (cheers)
That--that's really nice, thank you. (crowd laughs)
(Downey Jr): Aw crap, just say it, Mark! (Crowd): Hulk, Hulk, Hulk, Hulk, Hulk, HULK!
(Hardwick): No, don't get him excited! That's when it gets bad! (laughter)
You have to keep his pulse down! - (From crowd): But we like it when he's mad!
(Hardwick): Do people shout Hulk things at you, just out in public?
(Ruffalo): People don't even know who I am, other than Hulk. (laughter)
I walked out in the street and it's like, "Yo, Hulk!" (laughter) "Hulk! Hulk!"
(Hardwick): You should just go with, "The name's Banner." And then just keep walking.
- (Ruffalo): "It's actually Banner." - (Hardwick): (chuckles) Uh Chris, hey,
how's it going, man? (audience cheers)
You are in exceptionally good shape. (audience cheers)
(Hemsworth): It happens, hanging out with these guys! (cheers)
- (Downey Jr): Dang! - (Hardwick): Stop that! (laughter)
(cheers, laughter)
That... that arm is the size of my torso! (audience laughs)
(Woman in audience): Thor! Take it off! (cat calls)
(Hardwick): What has Thor meant to you all this time?
(Hemsworth): Well, as these guys said, this is for me the same thing--one of the
best experiences I've had on the set, off the set, to work with this group
of people and bring this character to life and be part of this madness.
This is just an honor, of course. (audience cheers)
(Hardwick): Is there anything that you haven't done as Thor yet that you feel like,
"Oh, I just really want to do this thing as Thor. I really want Thor to do this"?
(Hemsworth): Turning into a woman. (loud cheers from audience, applause)
- (Ruffalo): Great idea, there. - (Downey Jr): Yeah!
I don't want to speak too early and jinx it, but I think it could be my Oscar.
(audience laughter)
It's going to be a big transformation, but I'm willing to take it on.
- (Ruffalo): You could do it. (Hardwick): Pause while everyone stops
and pictures you in a dress and then has a lot of feelings.
(Renner): You'd be ugly as shit, man, I gotta tell you, you 'd be ugly.
(Hemsworth): Ah, well...
(Downey Jr, Southern accent): Nah, he's got that purdy girl hair, I think he'd be fiiiine.
(Hemsworth): That's alright. I got a couple of nice weeks.
(Hardwick): Cobie Smulders also-- (audience cheers)
- (Hardwick): Hey! - (Smulders): Hiii!!
- (Hardwick): Maria Hill! - (Smulders): Hiii!
- (Hardwick): What are you doing? - (Smulders): Just hanging out with a
bunch of people up here-- - (Hardwick): We talked about backstage--
- (Smulders): --a chance to get to know some people - (Hardwick): Yeah we were talking a little
backstage about what a whirlwind this'll be. It's basically swoop in and do this and
people scream and cheer, and then you leave. Do you get to enjoy the Comic-Con at all?
(Smulders): Yeah, not the going-on-the-floor or anything, but it was my first time doing
a signing with these guys. It was pretty incredible to get to meet people and--
and sign pictures and kind of connect for a second or so.
(Hardwick): Excellent. And could you--I think we talked--you didn't expect that
this would keep going on and on for Maria, right?
(Smulders): No I hoped, I hoped! Yeah, but when Joss sort of, Joss is the one who
kind of brought me into this world and I'm sorry he can't be here. I'm sure he
wishes he could be. But yeah, he kinda brought me into this world and it's just
been fun, I just keep going on and on in film and TV and I'm just so grateful.
(Hardwick): Excellent. (audience cheers)
So Jackson, it is ah--
(audience cheers loudly)
(Jackson): I can't hear the question. Please. (audience laughter)
(Hardwick): Does it feel good to put the eye patch back on? Because I feel like
last time we talked about it you were like, "I bump into stuff a lot. Because of
my depth perception with the eye patch on."
(Jackson): I was smart enough to figure it out. (audience laughs)
I stopped running into things and I just keep my head to the right.
It all works out fine. (audience laughter) I've got that down pat.
(Hardwick): Good.
(Jackson): I've got that down pat, Kevin, and you can cancel the insurance.
(laughter)
Everyone's like, "huh?" (laughter)
(Hardwick): So how do you feel? Like, how do you think Nick Fury would react
to this type of perception? - (Jackson): Um... You know, Comic-Con
is phenomenal. It's totally amazing. It's like every year, (whoop from audience)
I've been coming here since like Episode I of Star Wars. (big cheers from audience)
It seems like every year I come here, and it validates the fact that I belong,
and I get all this energy and love from everybody, and it makes me feel
like going out and making movies for the rest of the year. (loud cheers)
We make movies because we wanna entertain you guys, and I make movies because I
wanna see myself in them. (laughter) It's the perfect combination for me!
All this love and... It just energizes me, and I can't wait to come back next year with
the next movie. (loud cheers, applause)
(Hardwick): Now, let's go over to Chris Evans who's--
(loud cheers)
(Evans): I don't like this going-down-the-line thing--this is intimidating!
(Hardwick): It's very assembly-line. The whole time you're like, "What am I gonna
say? What's my answer gonna be?" I heard a story that I wanted to confirm from you,
and I don't know if it's true, but I heard that when you and Hemsworth were sort of
working together that you guys were like comparing muscle rippage, and you were like,
"But how do you get this little piece right here?" - (Evans): There's no comparison! I mean
come on, it's very difficult to stand next to him. He literally--he is Thor. (laughter)
It's not just a costume, he is enormous. It's difficult to try and keep up. (laughter)
(Hardwick): How do you keep up? Like, how long is your workout here?
(Evans): Magic! CGI! (laughter)
Stunt man and, uh, you know...
(Hardwick): Congratulations on the success of Winter Soldier.
(Downey Jr?): Yes! (audience cheers)
(Hardwick): Do you feel like, at this point, that Steve--the Captain's--does
he feel more acclimated to this world yet, or does he still feel a little isolated?
(Evans): Well no, I think he's getting there. I think we're past, y'know, he's not
amazed at cell phones and the Internet. (laughter) I mean, I think he's up to speed,
but I think he's still looking for a place to belong, you know? He's for so long
been a servant. It fits him, and as a soldier he's used to this chain of command,
and since S.H.E.I.L.D. kinda fell apart in the last movie, it's more about this
group of people depending upon each other, without a clear leader,
and I think he's searching for home.
(Hardwick): I'd like to welcome Aaron Taylor-Johnson. (loud cheers)
Quicksilver!
Who we'll just get a peek of, a little bit! How has it felt, coming into this
established world with all these people who've been working together, as the new guy?
(audience whoops, cheers) (Johnson): Pretty overwhelming, and surreal,
and I was flattered that Joss and the Marvel guys approached me for this. You know,
don't hesitate. It's a huge--it's incredible to be a part of this gang of
great actors and... (mumbles, trails off)
(Hardwick): Was there anything about doing a superhero film that you never envisioned?
What's different about it than other stuff? - (Johnson): The Avengers?
- (Hardwick): Yeah. - (Johnson): I think, you know, it's just
the characters--you have such a dynamic between, you know, the group, and I think
what Joss did in the first one was-- it seemed like a mission to complete
the impossible, but everyone had their moment, stood out, and y'know, what's
beautiful is you get these kind of characters in the same room, and they
bounce off of each other, there's banter and humor and has that tone where
it can be a happy journey, and then be emotional and sad at moments, and
light-hearted and action-packed.
I thoroughly enjoy all the Marvel movies, and I'm so excited to be a part of this one.
(loud cheers)
(Hardwick): I'm very excited to see Paul Bettany make the jump from--
(cheers, applause)--a disembodied voice to a man on-screen.
(Bettany): Yeah, they're now gonna make me work for my money. (laughter)
I used to turn up to a dark room for 45 minutes and get a bag of cash. (laughter)
And now I have to work. (laughter)
(Hardwick): So how has that experience been for you?
(Bettany): Everybody's been incredibly welcoming and it's been--it's the most
exciting for me, it's been the most exciting thing that's ever happened
to my children. (laughter)
(Hardwick): Do you get "cool dad" points for this?
(Bettany): They simply had no interest in what I did until this one. (laughter)
At last, I'm cool!
(Hardwick): And now all the neighborhood kids are gonna be turning up at your house
and asking you to do the voice. - (Bettany): Y'know, I've had to keep this
secret for a year and a half, and so have my kids, which is pretty impressive,
you know, in school, that they just didn't breathe a word out of it.
- (Hardwick): That you know of. - (Bettany): (chuckles) That I know of.
(Hardwick): Welcome James Spader!
(cheers, applause)
(Bettany): Is it--have you been to Comic-Con before? Is this your first Comic-Con?
(Spader): I came last year to Comic-Con for a TV show I do called Blacklist.
(cheers)
And, you know, I just wanna say something to all of you guys--
- (Man in crowd): (unintelligible) - (Spader): --I've always thought my whole
life that life could never get weird or crazy enough for me. (laughter) And I
gotta tell you something: This place may be the weirdest crazy experience--
(drowned out by cheers, applause)
It's because of all of you guys and so I thank you for that, because it is
really, fantastically crazy here. (laughter, cheers)
(Hardwick): You should pat yourselves on the back, everyone, that you are
now a part of James Spader's weird fever dreams. (cheers)
So, what would you say about Ultron and your approach to the role, and what you
want to bring to it?
(Spader): (laughs) I play an 8-foot robot in this movie.
(laughter, whoop from audience)
And it was like it was--I've always played humans up until now--
(laughter)--and shooting this film was
as startling and surprising and challenging and exciting as coming here, truthfully,
for the first time. Doing this film was-- everything, everything was so entirely new.
The process of making it, playing this character, all of the people, the world
that I was entering, even the world that these movies inhabit--not just in terms of
story and place and people and so on, but also just the part of the movie business
that these movies inhabit is entirely new to me.
And it was just unimaginably exciting.
Just unimaginably exciting. (cheers)
(Hardwick): Also welcome Liz Olsen--
(cheers, applause)
(Olsen): Thank you. I hate being last. It's quite a list of people to follow right now.
(Hardwick): It is, and you're the last one. Oh, this better be good!
- (Olsen): It doesn't feel that great. - (Hardwick): No, it's good. So, you're
the other new character on the block, so to speak, in terms of the Scarlet
Witch. What has your experience been like, coming into the group and
being the new gal?
(Olsen): It's been awesome. I was first really intimidated by all of the people
I was going to potentially work with, and then everyone was incredibly welcoming
and it's just been so much fun. And it's fun to bring a new element to the game.
There's now magic, there's mutated people--
(boos from crowd)--Woah, sorry about that. (boos continue)
(Hardwick, overlapping): What are you oohing at? I don't even get that.
What'd everyone "ooh" at before? (crowd noises continue)
- (Bettany, quietly): "Mutant" - (Ruffalo): "Mutant's" a bad word.
- (Hardwick): Yeah, I know, I know, I know. - (Olsen): But anyway, I just think it's--
- (Hardwick, overlapping): We're all the same-- - (Olsen): --yeah, I think it ends up
adding something kind of epic to the fights, that there's just a new
element. It's not just awesome punching and...
I dunno. Now we get to do something different, and I think it brings up
where Marvel's going with their other films as well, having all the...
It's just like the beginning, it kinda feels like just the beginning.
(Hardwick): When you're preparing a character that does all the things that
she does, is it any different from preparing if you're just playing a regular non-witch?
(Olsen): Yes. I practice daily, just staring at a pencil and trying to get it to move.
(laughter) - (Hardwick): Any luck making autographs?
- (Olsen): Yeah, for hours. - (Hardwick): It's not working, though?
- (Olsen): It's what? - (Hardwick): Is it working yet?
- (Olsen) No, it's been flying! - (Hardwick): You should see her do it,
it's pretty cool. - (Olsen): I'm nailing it.
(laughter) - (Downey Jr): She actually cast a spell
on me two weeks ago, and hopefully before this is all done, she'll relieve me of it.
(laughter) - (Renner): It burns. (more laughter)
(Downey Jr laughs loudly)
(Hardwick): That could mean anything! It doesn't mean--(drowned out by laughter)
(laughs, cheers, chatter)
That's on you guys! - (Downey Jr, small voice): It burns!
(Downey Jr, normaly): We can't be giddy this early, no. (laughter, whoops)
(Hardwick): Obviously, you've probably noticed that Scarlett Johansson was not
able to be here, even though I know that she wanted to be here.
(Downey Jr): Scarlett wanted to be here, Scarlett is, right now... (fades out)
(Hardwick): I don't know how you'd top Ultron, bad-guy-wise.
(Downey Jr): You know, the great thing about Marvel is they've always got the
next thing up their sleeve, so, uh...
well, you know, we've got Thanos. (loud cheers)
(Hardwick): Josh Brolin! (loud cheers)
(cheers, applause continue)
(Brolin, deep, sulky voice): Where's my rose?
(laughter, cheers)
(laughter gets louder)
(Downey Jr): We love you guys so much, we're so excited! Thanks for coming,
we're gonna keep trying to do our best for you. (cheers, applause)
(Hardwick): You're the best, guys! Age of Ultron, out in May of 2015!
Please, continue to stay on your feet. A new round of applause for the entire cast!
(loud cheers, whoops, applause)
(Hardwick): I don't know where you go from here. It doesn't get better than
this! But I hope you guys have a nice, safe night. So great to see you guys.
See you tomorrow on the Con--one more day!
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