Tim Roth says he isn’t so sure that his much-publicized “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law” scene with Mark Ruffalo made the final cut.
In a new interview, the actor — who starred opposite Edward Norton in Marvel’s first standalone Hulk film and reprises his role as Emil Blonsky/Abomination in the new series — says he’s not sure viewers will see the scene, which he says cheekily plays up Marvel’s recasting of the gargantuan superhero when Ruffalo took over from Norton starting with 2012’s “The Avengers.”
“I’ve always wanted to work with him, and it just happened to be this, which was kind of fun,” Roth told The Hollywood Reporter. “But we messed around with [the recasting]. I don’t know if any of it made it into [“She-Hulk”], but when I looked at him as we were shooting, I was like, ‘You’ve put on weight. There’s something about you …’ So it was that kind of stuff. We messed around, and we were encouraged to improvise and play.”
In fairness, Roth admitted he hasn’t seen the show yet, so it’s still possible the scene made it into the series — giving Marvel fans a nice meta-moment to enjoy.
Elsewhere in the interview, Roth discussed the subject of his deleted scenes from longtime collaborator Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” in which he played the butler of Sharon Tate’s pal Jay Sebring. The subject came up when he was asked about the possibility of an extended “Hollywood” cut premiering on Netflix, a la the extended cut of “The Hateful Eight” (also featuring Roth) that was previously released on the streamer.
“I didn’t even know that he’d done an extended version of ‘The Hateful Eight,'” said Roth. “When we did ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,’ it was just a cameo. I came and did a few scenes. He was so sweet about it when we talked, but the cut came out to be four hours long or something. So he had to make a decision about the characters he had to flow with, and so the other characters’ storylines, unfortunately, went by the wayside. All of those storylines were shot, so it’d be a hell of a fun thing to see. My son [Hunter Roth], who worked on it as an assistant, went to the screening at the Arclight, and he was like, ‘You got billing!’ It cracked him up because it said, ‘Tim Roth (Cut).’ (Laughs.) And that’s so Quentin. I actually love that. So if he does an extended version, that would be kind of weird and wonderful. It’d be something to see.”
Roth wasn’t the only actor to have their brief appearances removed from the Oscar-winning pic. Others cut from the final version of the film included James Marsden as Burt Reynolds and Danny Strong as Dean Martin.