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Ellise Shafer editorFor all involved in the making of HBO miniseries “I Know This Much Is True,” one word continues to come up when describing the filming process: generosity.This was the word of the hour during the Variety Streaming Room Q&A with writer and director Derek Cianfrance, executive producer and star Mark Ruffalo and cast members Kathryn Hahn, Rosie O’Donnell, John Procaccino, Philip Ettinger and Archie Panjabi.“I don’t think there was a cast member or a crew member that didn’t give

Mark Ruffalo will do anything to play a role to the best of his abilities — including losing 20 pounds by eating only 1,000 calories a day.The actor, 52, manipulated his own weight in order to portray the Birdsey twins in HBO’s limited series, I Know This Much Is True, which is based on the Wally Lamb novel of the same name.

Most critics scoff at the idea when a filmmaker says they’ve turned their TV series is just an extended movie, and yes, this notion is overused and abused. But the limited series format—five or six episodes—is the perfect format for telling the ideas in a feature-length film over the course of five or six hours.

Mark Ruffalo piled on the pounds for his new role in TV series I Know This Much Is True by eating “bowls and bowls of oatmeal”.

When you tune in to I Know This Much Is True on HBO this Sunday, no need to adjust your sets: There really are two Mark Ruffalos on your screen.

By Cynthia Littleton

To see the difference between turgid melodrama and tragedy, you need look no further than broadcast TV's dozen recent This Is Us knockoffs — Council of Dads, I'm looking at you — and Derek Cianfrance's adaptation of Wally Lamb's I Know This Much Is True.

Ruffalo said "Blue Valentine" director Derek Cianfrance tried and failed to cast him in "Blue Valentine" in a role eventually played by Ryan Gosling, reports variety.com.

We just learned that Mark Ruffalo was almost given Ryan Gosling‘s role in the hit 2010 movie Blue Valentine!

Here’s a new trailer for an upcoming six-part TV series coming to screens soon, I Know This Much Is True, which will stars Mark Ruffalo. It comes to the small screen from the acclaimed Derek Cianfrance, the filmmaker behind the superb Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond The Pines. The series is based on the source novel of the same name by Wally Lamb.

In today’s TV News Roundup, HBO announced the premiere date for “I Know This Much Is True” and CNN launched a new podcast focusing on coronavirus. 

Mark Ruffalo is playing double duty in HBO’s new miniseries, I Know This Much Is True. On Sunday, HBO dropped the first trailer for the six-part series, directed by Derek Cianfrance and based on Wally Lamb’s 1998 novel by the same name.

Mark Ruffalo isn't just playing identical twins in HBO's miniseries I Know This Much Is True.