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" Mark Ruffalo may be the best actor of our generation. So when will he finally land that megastar-making role? Mark Ruffalo&amp;#039;s wife likes to tell him he has bad taste in movies. His response? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s cheesy to say, but I&amp;#039;m an artist, man! You take risks, and sometimes they pay off, and sometimes they don&amp;#039;t,&amp;quot; he explains. &amp;quot;They all pay off for me inside. Anyway, they do well enough that I keep getting jobs.&amp;quot; Thank God for that, because this month, there&amp;#039;s no one we&amp;#039;d rather watch \u2014 and suffer with \u2014 than his tormented character at the center of a fatal hit-and-run accident in Reservation Road.  The perpetually tousled Ruffalo has been Hollywood&amp;#039;s go-to guy for deeply conflicted, morally ambiguous characters ever since he inhabited Laura Linney&amp;#039;s ne&amp;#039;er-do-well stoner brother in You Can Count on Me. He has a knack for playing emotionally stunted jerks without losing an audience&amp;#039;s empathy \u2014 and he does it again in his latest. &amp;quot;Dwight becomes a walking dead man,&amp;quot; says Ruffalo, who transmits the character&amp;#039;s guilt in a single agonizing glance. (See the movie and you&amp;#039;ll know the one we mean.) &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not condoning his actions, but this film shows we&amp;#039;re all emotionally frail creatures.&amp;quot;   Besides a trio of beige rom-coms with Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Garner, and Reese Witherspoon, the pillow-lipped Ruffalo has generally stuck to the shadowy corners of the human psyche, as when he played an adulterous professor in We Don&amp;#039;t Live Here Anymore. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m more or less a dark person, but as I get older and my depression burns off, I laugh more,&amp;quot; he says.  Much of that laughter happens at home: He has a third child arriving this month with Sunrise Coigney, his wife of seven years. &amp;quot;It just keeps rolling into new territory,&amp;quot; says Ruffalo, who ranks making out with the missus right up there with backflips on the family trampoline. &amp;quot;You think you already love them to death, then all of a sudden something else opens up. We&amp;#039;re more intimate, honest, and accepting.&amp;quot;   Although the Wisconsinite, who bartended for nearly a decade before making his first big movie \u2014 and who lists as his weaknesses indolence, pasta, chocolate, and consumerism \u2014 has been compared to Brando, that elusive star-defining role has yet to materialize. But Ruffalo, having come back from a benign brain tumor in 2002, is too busy working and living his life to worry about it. &amp;quot;The best advice I ever read was to try to grasp the unattainable, redefine everything that has been taught you, and understand the power of a single action,&amp;quot; he says.  &amp;quot;And the other great one was, &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t do any more lousy movies.&amp;#039; That was from Sean Penn.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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