Indie-idol-turned-Avengers-superhero Mark Ruffalo was filming 2001’s “The Last Castle” alongside Robert Redford, his first big break, when he received life-changing news. Ruffalo was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, a walnut-sized brain tumor behind his left ear.
“There I was with one of my heroes, Robert Redford,” Ruffalo, 51, said in an interview with Men’s Journal. “I’m like, ‘What the [expletive] am I doing here? This is my wildest dream come true!’ And then I found out I had my brain tumor.”
