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Six best moments at the Avengers Assemble press conference

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Matt

22nd April 2012

JOURNALISTS ASSEMBLE! I had the pleasure of joining half of the media in the UK in attending the biggest press conference ever seen in Britain. Probably. It was pretty big. At one point there was a biscuit shortage.

The problem with press conferences this big is that it's hard to keep everyone in good spirits. 200 journalists are fighting to get a question in and the stars - in this case, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cobie Smulders, Clark Gregg, and bigshot producers Kevin Feige and Jeremy Latcham - are just blindsighted by the sea of eager hands and ironic t-shirts.

So, unfortunately, the press conference wasn't entirely useful, but I've handily compiled the six best moments for you anyway. Just read this and pretend you're staring at bored, famous faces at the same time.
1. Mark Ruffalo on coping with passionate fans

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"I was overcome by a moment of very poor judgement early on by going online and seeing the response to me coming in as the new Banner. I won't do that again. It wasn't glowing and I found the fans'...'exuberant passion'...to be very, very brutal."
2. Robert Downey Jr on keeping props from the set

3. An extremely long question from a foreign journalist

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"Q. I have a question for Robert and Scarlett. Firstly, Robert, in Iron Man 1 and Iron Man 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but now learns how to fight as a team, so how did you approach this role bearing in mind the kind of maturity of the human being in the Tony Stark character and did you learn anything throughout the movies that you make? And to Scarlett, for getting into the shape of Black Widow, did you have anything special to count as a diet, any specific food or that kind of thing?"
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RDJ: "If I've learned anything, it's that people are much more interested in... your second question to Scarlett than any answer I have to give."
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SJ: "How come you get the really interesting existential question and I get the rabbit food question?"
4. Robert Downey Jr on his favourite fight move

5. Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner deal with mobile phone interference

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SJ: "Me and Renner and Tom always [bzzzz] spent the most amount of time in the stunt gym [bzzzz] just because we had [bzzz] these huge choreographed sequences. [bzzz] Er...[bzzz] they're just...[bzzzz] y'know, they're intense. I'm happy to do that. We had such an amazing [bzzz] stunt team and a lot of them came off Iron Man 2 [bzzzz] and we spent so much time with them, it kind of felt like a family [bzzz] and er...[bzzzz] um...[bzzzz] what IS that? [bzzz] But y'know it's great, it's great fun to do it and y'know it's [bzzzz] er...[bzzzz] it's um...[bzzzz] it's um...[bzzz] but it’s er...[bzzz] it paid off. [to Jeremy Renner] Right?"
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JR: "I'm extremely jet lagged and I have no idea what you just said."
6. SWAG

That's, right - I got BADGES, bitches! (*high-fives self*)
So this might not have been the best quote-yielding experience, but luckily I managed to get some closer interview time with the stars, which I'll share all this week up until Thursday 26th April, when Avengers Assemble finally gets released in cinemas.

Tomorrow I'll post an interview with Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner. (*high-fives self again*)

More:  The Avengers  Avengers Assemble  Robert Downey Jr  Scarlett Johansson  Jeremy Renner  Mark Ruffalo
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