“It appealed to the sort of anarchy in me.”
Warning: This article contains spoilers about episode 3 ofShe-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
Tim Rothis the first to admit that he never thought he’d return to Marvel after 2008’sThe Incredible Hulk.
Tim Roth has returned to Marvel as Abomination for ‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’.Marvel Studios
One of theMarvel Cinematic Universe’s first films starredEdward Nortonas Bruce Banner a.k.a.
the Hulk (beforeMark Ruffalotook over the role) and Roth as the government agent-turned-supervillain Emil Blonsky, a.k.a.
Thanks to Bruce’s own cousin Jen Walters a.k.a.
And it did, so it succeeded on both levels.
But Roth admits that he doesn’t “really know anything about it.”
“I generally don’t watch the things that I’m in.
I spent just a few minutes in the middle of COVID with them in a sound studio.
It was fun.”
But that recording session led to Roth getting yet another call from Marvel.
“They said, ‘Would you come in and have a chat with us?
We’ve got an idea.’
I was like, ‘…
Okay,'” Roth remembers.
It really appealed on that level."
And since head writer Jessica Gao previously worked onRick and Morty, Roth knew he couldn’t say no.
“And so here we are,” he says.
“I felt that it was just a lovely way to revisit my children’s childhood.
I loved the notion of that.”
He laughs before adding, “But then you’ve got to do it.
It was really difficult at first.
I honestly didn’t know what I was doing.”
“I watched them on-camera and it was absolutely hilarious and really good.
But then I watched them relating off-camera, and that was when the penny dropped for me.
‘Oh, I get it.
Okay, now I know.’
And then I had so much fun.”
That kind of thing," Roth says.
“That was always the question: ‘Is he telling the truth here?
And where are we going?'”
“That’s the fun.
I can’t answer that for you,” he says with a laugh.
“He’s been kept in maximum security solitary confinement for a very long time.
What does that do to someone?
Where does that lead him?
And who is this guy now?
Should we have a leap of faith in him or not?”
He laughs again before adding, “That’s for you to find out.
The mischief is just all the way in there, and there’s more to come.
I know what’s coming.
I hope we get away with it, I can only say that.”
“It was great.
‘You really put on weight,’ that kind of stuff.
It’s very funny.
But listen, I got to work with two great actors, that’s the bottom line.
That’s pretty much a bonus.
I’ll take that.”
New episodes ofShe-Hulk: Attorney at Lawdebut Thursdays onDisney+.
