First Joss [Whedon] reached out to me and I was thinking, ‘Me?’ You know, ‘Why me?’ And then Robert [Downey Jr.] reached out and they’re like, ‘You know, let’s do this,’ and I [asked], ‘Well, is there a script?’ ‘No, we don’t have a script. We’re not gonna give you anything. You have to just sign on.’ I’m like, ‘Sign on to nine movies without knowing what the heck I’m gonna do?’ And so I said, ‘Joss, you have to understand, I got into trouble once doing this. I made a promise to myself I would never sign on to something without having a script again. You understand where I’m coming [from?]’ He’s like, ‘I totally get it, man. What if I float you maybe 20 pages of what Banner’s gonna be doing so you just get a sense of what it’s gonna be?’ And I said, ‘Would you please do that? I’d be so grateful to you and it would make this process a lot easier for everybody.’ And so he did and I loved it. And, you know, it was basically Banner’s introduction with Black Widow.”
