<p class="title"> Actor Mark Ruffalo has revealed that Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige almost left the company in 2012 over lack of diversity and representation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ruffalo, who has been playing the role of Bruce Banner/Hulk Marvel Cinematic Universe movies since 2012, said Feige told him about his plan to quit the job on the sets of <em>The Avengers</em> right before he went to meet his Disney superiors to urge them to consider a female-led movie.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"When we did the first <em>Avengers,</em> Kevin Feige told me, 'Listen, I might not be here tomorrow'. And he's like, 'Ike (Perlmutter, Disney's largest shareholder at that point) does not believe that anyone will go to a female-starring super movie. So if I am still here tomorrow you will know that I won that battle'," the actor said in an interview with The Independent.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ruffalo credits Feige for bringing a major change in the superhero movie landscape.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"That was the turning point for Marvel. Because Kevin wanted black superheroes, women superheroes, LGBT superheroes. He changed the whole Marvel universe.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We now have gay superheroes, we have black superheroes, we have female superheroes – Scarlett Johansson has her movie coming out, we have <em>Captain Marvel,</em> they are doing 'She Hulk' next. No other studio is being that forwardly inclusive on that level. They have to, though. This is the f***ing world. The culture is way ahead of the politics," he added.</p>
<p class="title"> Actor Mark Ruffalo has revealed that Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige almost left the company in 2012 over lack of diversity and representation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ruffalo, who has been playing the role of Bruce Banner/Hulk Marvel Cinematic Universe movies since 2012, said Feige told him about his plan to quit the job on the sets of <em>The Avengers</em> right before he went to meet his Disney superiors to urge them to consider a female-led movie.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"When we did the first <em>Avengers,</em> Kevin Feige told me, 'Listen, I might not be here tomorrow'. And he's like, 'Ike (Perlmutter, Disney's largest shareholder at that point) does not believe that anyone will go to a female-starring super movie. So if I am still here tomorrow you will know that I won that battle'," the actor said in an interview with The Independent.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ruffalo credits Feige for bringing a major change in the superhero movie landscape.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"That was the turning point for Marvel. Because Kevin wanted black superheroes, women superheroes, LGBT superheroes. He changed the whole Marvel universe.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We now have gay superheroes, we have black superheroes, we have female superheroes – Scarlett Johansson has her movie coming out, we have <em>Captain Marvel,</em> they are doing 'She Hulk' next. No other studio is being that forwardly inclusive on that level. They have to, though. This is the f***ing world. The culture is way ahead of the politics," he added.</p>