Edward Norton (The Incredible Hulk)
Edward Norton is a three-time Academy Award-nominated actor who has appeared in some truly brilliant movies, including Primal Fear, The People vs. Larry Flynt, American History X, Red Dragon, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Birdman.
When he was cast as Bruce Banner, aka the Incredible Hulk, in the 2008 movie about the superhero, it was an exciting prospect. Unfortunately, the movie was pretty terrible – especially when compared to the Iron Man movie that had been released in the same year – and Norton was so unhappy with the whole thing that he stepped down from the role, to be replaced by Mark Ruffalo in The Avengers and beyond.
Norton was wasted. He’s every bit as capable of going as deep in his performances as Robert Downey, Jr., but the movie was just weak, as the main character’s story and Banner’s inner conflict just weren’t presented very well at all.
