Mark Ruffalo and Woody Harrelson's memories of making the first Now You See Me in New Orleans include a wild bar fight.
When Ruffalo, 57, appeared on Ted Danson and Harrelson's SiriusXM show Where Everybody Knows Your Name for the Wednesday, Oct. 15 episode, the actor said he and Harrelson, 64, filmed scenes for the 2013 heist movie "completely on the streets" of New Orleans during Mardi Gras, which resulted in the men being "dragged into bars during the middle of a scene."
"We were out one night and it was a packed place. And a woman came up to [Harrelson] and she said, 'Oh my God, I love you so much,' " Ruffalo remembered. "And Woody put his hand on her arm and he said, 'Oh, thank you. Thank you, darling.' And this guy comes over and he pushes her out of the way, and he shoves Woody."
"Yeah, I remember that," Harrelson added.
"Bad," Ruffalo said of the situation. "Because Woody's first response is not shove someone back, but immediately punch them in the face. Which is the right thing to do, by the way. It's the absolute right thing to do. But then a whole melee broke out in this bar. He was in it -- I was in the middle of it and it was going become a whole thing."
As Ruffalo recalled, he took Harrelson out of the incident before the situation grew worse for fear of their group's safety. "I grabbed you and I pulled you out,'cause I was like, this could be fun, but it also just could go so disastrously wrong because you and I might be able to handle ourselves, but the rest of the folks we were with, I don't think so," he said.
Ruffalo and Harrelson costarred with Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco in the original Now You See Me movie, which followed Ruffalo as an FBI agent and Mélanie Laurent as an Interpol agent who investigate a series of heists perpetrated by the group of magicians known as "The Four Horsemen."
The movie was a smash hit and spawned a 2016 sequel; both Ruffalo and Harrelson are returning for the threequel in the upcoming Now You See Me: Now You Don't. The OG cast members are joined by new costars Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa and Ariana Greenblatt in the new movie, which a synopsis teases sees the Four Horsemen "unite with a new generation of illusionists for their most global, high-stakes magical adventure yet."
"The two generations of magicians must overcome their differences to try and defeat their cunning and dangerous adversary," the synopsis adds.
Rosamund Pike appears in the movie as an antagonist-diamond heiress, while Morgan Freeman also reprises his role from the earlier two movies as Thaddeus.