Becoming ULTRON - Avengers 2 Age of Ultron [Making-of]

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bBcQ5cWHW3M" width="640"></iframe><br /> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading" lang="en" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; overflow: visible; padding: 0px;"> <i>Avengers: Age of Ultron</i></h1> <div class="mw-body-content" id="bodyContent" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.6; position: relative; z-index: 0;"> <div id="siteSub" style="font-size: 12.88px;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <i><b>Avengers: Age of Ultron</b></i> is a 2015 American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhero_film" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Superhero film">superhero film</a> based on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comics" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel Comics</a> superhero team the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_(comics)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Avengers (comics)">Avengers</a>, produced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Studios" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Marvel Studios">Marvel Studios</a> and distributed by<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Studios_Motion_Pictures" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures">Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures</a>. It is the sequel to 2012's <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_(2012_film)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Avengers (2012 film)">The Avengers</a></i> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_films" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films">the eleventh installment</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Marvel Cinematic Universe">Marvel Cinematic Universe</a> (MCU). The film was written and directed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Joss Whedon">Joss Whedon</a> and features an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_cast" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ensemble cast">ensemble cast</a> that includes <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Downey_Jr." style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Downey Jr.">Robert Downey Jr.</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hemsworth" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Chris Hemsworth">Chris Hemsworth</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ruffalo" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mark Ruffalo">Mark Ruffalo</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Evans_(actor)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Chris Evans (actor)">Chris Evans</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlett_Johansson" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Scarlett Johansson">Scarlett Johansson</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Renner" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jeremy Renner">Jeremy Renner</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Cheadle" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Don Cheadle">Don Cheadle</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Taylor-Johnson" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Aaron Taylor-Johnson">Aaron Taylor-Johnson</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Olsen" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Elizabeth Olsen">Elizabeth Olsen</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bettany" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Bettany">Paul Bettany</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobie_Smulders" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cobie Smulders">Cobie Smulders</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Mackie" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Anthony Mackie">Anthony Mackie</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayley_Atwell" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hayley Atwell">Hayley Atwell</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_Elba" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Idris Elba">Idris Elba</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellan_Skarsg%C3%A5rd" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Stellan Skarsgård">Stellan Skarsgård</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Spader" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="James Spader">James Spader</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_L._Jackson" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Samuel L. Jackson">Samuel L. Jackson</a>. In <i>Avengers: Age of Ultron</i>, the Avengers must work together to defeat <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultron" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ultron">Ultron</a>, a mechanical artificial intelligence bent on human extinction.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> The sequel was announced in May 2012, after the successful release of <i>The Avengers</i>. Whedon, the director of the first film, was brought back on board in August and a release date was set. By April 2013, Whedon had completed a draft of the script, and casting began in June with the re-signing of Downey. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_unit" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Second unit">Second unit</a> filming began in February 2014 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_photography" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Principal photography">principal photography</a> taking place between March and August 2014. The film was primarily shot at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepperton_Studios" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Shepperton Studios">Shepperton Studios</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Surrey">Surrey</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="England">England</a>, with additional footage filmed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Italy">Italy</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="South Korea">South Korea</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="New York">New York</a>, and various locations around England.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <i>Avengers: Age of Ultron</i> premiered in Los Angeles on April 13, 2015, and was released on May 1, 2015 in North America, in 3D and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX_3D" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="IMAX 3D">IMAX 3D</a>. The film received positive reviews and has grossed over $1.4 billion worldwide, making it the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_in_film" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="2015 in film">third-highest-grossing film of 2015</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="List of highest-grossing films">sixth-highest-grossing film of all time</a>. Two sequels,<i>Avengers: Infinity War – Part 1</i> and <i>Avengers: Infinity War – Part 2</i>, are scheduled to be released on May 4, 2018, and May 3, 2019, respectively.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <br /></div> <table class="infobox vevent" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); clear: right; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.6px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 22em;"><tbody> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Directed by</th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Joss Whedon">Joss Whedon</a></td></tr> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Produced by</th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Feige" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Kevin Feige">Kevin Feige</a></td></tr> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Written by</th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;">Joss Whedon</td></tr> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Based on</th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_(comics)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Avengers (comics)">The Avengers</a></i><br /> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Stan Lee">Stan Lee</a><br /> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kirby" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jack Kirby">Jack Kirby</a></td></tr> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Starring</th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;"><div class="plainlist"> <ul style="line-height: inherit; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Downey_Jr." style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Downey Jr.">Robert Downey Jr.</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hemsworth" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Chris Hemsworth">Chris Hemsworth</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ruffalo" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mark Ruffalo">Mark Ruffalo</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Evans_(actor)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Chris Evans (actor)">Chris Evans</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlett_Johansson" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Scarlett Johansson">Scarlett Johansson</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Renner" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jeremy Renner">Jeremy Renner</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Cheadle" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Don Cheadle">Don Cheadle</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Taylor-Johnson" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Aaron Taylor-Johnson">Aaron Taylor-Johnson</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Olsen" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Elizabeth Olsen">Elizabeth Olsen</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bettany" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Bettany">Paul Bettany</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobie_Smulders" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cobie Smulders">Cobie Smulders</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Mackie" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Anthony Mackie">Anthony Mackie</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayley_Atwell" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hayley Atwell">Hayley Atwell</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_Elba" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Idris Elba">Idris Elba</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellan_Skarsg%C3%A5rd" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Stellan Skarsgård">Stellan Skarsgård</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Spader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="James Spader">James Spader</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_L._Jackson" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Samuel L. Jackson">Samuel L. Jackson</a></li> </ul> </div> </td></tr> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Music by</th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;"><div class="plainlist"> <ul style="line-height: inherit; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Tyler_(composer)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Brian Tyler (composer)">Brian Tyler</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Elfman" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Danny Elfman">Danny Elfman</a></li> </ul> </div> </td></tr> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Cinematography</th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Davis_(cinematographer)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ben Davis (cinematographer)">Ben Davis</a></td></tr> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Edited by</th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;"><div class="plainlist"> <ul style="line-height: inherit; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford_(film_editor)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jeffrey Ford (film editor)">Jeffrey Ford</a></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Lassek" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lisa Lassek">Lisa Lassek</a></li> </ul> </div> </td></tr> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; padding: 0.1em 0px;"> Production<br /> company</div> </th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;"><div style="vertical-align: middle;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Studios" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Marvel Studios">Marvel Studios</a></div> </td></tr> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Distributed by</th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Studios_Motion_Pictures" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures">Walt Disney Studios<br />Motion Pictures</a></td></tr> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; padding: 0.1em 0px; white-space: normal;"> Release dates</div> </th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;"><div class="plainlist"> <ul style="line-height: inherit; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;">April 13, 2015<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><small style="font-size: 10.71px;">(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Theatre" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Dolby Theatre">Dolby Theatre</a>)</small></span></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px;">May 1, 2015 <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><small style="font-size: 10.71px;">(United States)</small></span></li> </ul> </div> </td></tr> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; padding: 0.1em 0px; white-space: normal;"> Running time</div> </th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;">141 minutes<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BBFCRuntime_1-0" style="font-size: 10.08px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-BBFCRuntime-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup></td></tr> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Country</th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;">United States</td></tr> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Language</th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;">English</td></tr> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Budget</th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;">$279.9 million<sup class="reference plainlinks nourlexpansion" id="ref_1" style="font-size: 10.08px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#endnote_1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">1</a></sup></td></tr> <tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 0.65em; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Box office</th><td style="line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: top;">$1.403 billion<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BOM_2-0" style="font-size: 10.08px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-BOM-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"> <h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"> <span class="mw-headline" id="Cast">Cast</span></h2> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">The</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefactor_(law)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Benefactor (law)">benefactor</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">of the</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_(comics)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Avengers (comics)">Avengers</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">,</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MTV3_3-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-MTV3-3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-StarkBankroll_4-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-StarkBankroll-4" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DigitalSpy_5-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-DigitalSpy-5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">who is a self-described genius, billionaire, playboy, and philanthropist with</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man%27s_armor" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Iron Man's armor">electromechanical suits of armor</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">of his own invention.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Downey2_6-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Downey2-6" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></sup><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">On how his character evolves after the events of</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><i style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man_3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Iron Man 3">Iron Man 3</a></i><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">, Downey said, "...it kinda reminds me of like all that stuff particularly as you get a little older or if you have any existential queries whatsoever. It's like why aren't I dealing with that which is going to destroy me any second anyway? And then the armor was kind of an extension of that. And also there was just so many suits, but I think he realizes that tweaking and making all the suits in the world—which is what he has been doing—still didn't work for that thing of his tour of duty that left him a little</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTSD" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="PTSD">PTSD</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">. So his focus is more on how can we make it so that there's no problem to begin with. That, you know, there's a bouncer at our planet's rope. That's the big idea."</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Downey3_7-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Downey3-7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a></sup><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Downey_Jr." style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Downey Jr.">Robert Downey Jr.</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Iron Man">Tony Stark / Iron Man</a>:</li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hemsworth" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Chris Hemsworth">Chris Hemsworth</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_(Marvel_Comics)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Thor (Marvel Comics)">Thor</a>:</li> </ul> <dl style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An Avenger and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_prince" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Crown prince">crown prince</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asgard_(comics)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Asgard (comics)">Asgard</a>, based on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Norse mythology">Norse mythological</a> deity of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Thor">same name</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hemsworth_8-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Hemsworth-8" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a></sup> About Thor's place in the film, Hemsworth said, "Well, Thor stayed on Earth from [<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor:_The_Dark_World" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Thor: The Dark World">Thor: The Dark World</a></i>]. So he's here. He's part of the team. This is his home for the moment. So the initial threat of attack from Ultron is personal. Thor then begins to see a bigger picture about what this threat could potentially be and it begins to tie into all of our films."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hemsworth2_9-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Hemsworth2-9" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a></sup> Commenting on his portrayal of the character, Hemsworth said, "What becomes a challenge is trying to not repeat the same thing all the time. So you've got to work that bit harder to see what else you can do with the character." He added, "...it was just lightening up a bit. It gave us room to kind of make him a little more grounded and human and have him in some civilian clothes and mixing it up at a party. I want to do those scenes more. It's what I loved about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_(film)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Thor (film)">first [<i>Thor</i>film]</a>. There was an innocence and naïveté to him, which as he matured into the king of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor:_The_Dark_World" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Thor: The Dark World">second [<i>Thor</i> film]</a>—or the rightful king—we sort of lost a little bit of that."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BuzzFeed_10-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-BuzzFeed-10" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a></sup> Hemsworth noted that this is the first MCU film in which he did not work closely with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hiddleston" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tom Hiddleston">Tom Hiddleston</a>. "I was interested to see what was gonna be his conflict or his motivation, because he was sort of driven by that relationship previously. I love working with Tom, and I think there's always room for more Thor and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki_(comics)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Loki (comics)">Loki</a> stuff, but it's nice to do something completely different."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DigitalSpy_5-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-DigitalSpy-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup></dd></dl> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ruffalo" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mark Ruffalo">Mark Ruffalo</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_(comics)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hulk (comics)">Bruce Banner / Hulk</a>:</li> </ul> <dl style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An Avenger and a genius scientist who, because of exposure to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Gamma ray">gamma radiation</a>, transforms into a monster when enraged or agitated.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ruffalo_11-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Ruffalo-11" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a></sup> Ruffalo worked with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_capture" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Motion capture">motion capture</a> performer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Serkis" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Andy Serkis">Andy Serkis</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imaginarium_Studios" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Imaginarium Studios">The Imaginarium Studios</a> in preparation for the role.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Serkis_12-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Serkis-12" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a></sup> Ruffalo added, "[My role's] even bigger than last time, and it's more complex and it has more layers and a bit more arc. Not only that, but it seems that the motion capture process is becoming a whole lot more agreeable second time around. I'm really tripping on the technology of this motion-capture stuff... now I just completely embrace it and see it as this other exciting place we can go as performers."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ruffalo2_13-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Ruffalo2-13" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[13]</a></sup> Describing the relationship between Banner and Hulk in the film, Ruffalo said, "I think there's a whole relationship with Banner and Hulk that needs to be discovered. There's a very cool thing happening: Hulk is as afraid of Banner as Banner is afraid of Hulk." Ruffalo added, "Both of these guys are obviously the same guy, and they have got to come to peace somehow with each other. And I think that this confrontation is building along the lines of this film."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ruffalo3_14-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Ruffalo3-14" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a></sup> While filming in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="London">London</a>, Ruffalo said that Whedon still had not given him any of the Hulk's lines.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-IGNHulkOct2014_15-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-IGNHulkOct2014-15" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[15]</a></sup> Whedon later explained that he writes the Hulk's dialogue spontaneously, saying, "What makes the Hulk so hard to write is that you're pretending he's a werewolf when he's a superhero. You want it vice versa. You want to see him, Banner doesn't want to see him, but you don't want Banner to be that guy who gets in the way of you seeing him. So the question is, how has he progressed? How can we bring changes on what the Hulk does? And that's not just in the screenplay, that's moment to moment."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WhedonDec2014_16-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-WhedonDec2014-16" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[16]</a></sup></dd></dl> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Evans_(actor)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Chris Evans (actor)">Chris Evans</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Captain America">Steve Rogers / Captain America</a>:</li> </ul> <dl style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The leader of the Avengers<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MTV3_3-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-MTV3-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DigitalSpy_5-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-DigitalSpy-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup> and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="World War II">World War II</a> veteran, who was enhanced to the peak of human physicality by an experimental serum and frozen in suspended animation before waking up in the modern world.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Evans_17-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Evans-17" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[17]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Evans2_18-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Evans2-18" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[18]</a></sup> Describing his character's place in the film, Evans said, "He's still looking for a home, probably a metaphorical home. He's always felt comfortable as a soldier. And he likes structure. He works well taking orders. But when that dynamic turned on him, he's now left to depend upon his team, the Avengers. There really is no one above them telling them what to do. They're kind of having to operate independently. So there's a lot of leaning on one another, but there really isn't a kind of clear chain of command. And I think Cap looks for that. I think he's looking to understand where he belongs, not just as a soldier, as Captain America, but as Steve Rogers, as a person."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BuzzFeed_10-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-BuzzFeed-10" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a></sup> Evans said that he was able to maintain the strength he built up for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America:_The_Winter_Soldier" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Captain America: The Winter Soldier">Captain America: The Winter Soldier</a></i> by working out up to an hour a day. Evans said, "...you pull the plug about two to three weeks before you wrap. When you see the finish line coming, you are so glad to not have to think about the gym. But we are starting <i>Avengers 2</i>, so over the past month, I have been hitting it pretty hard."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Evans3_19-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Evans3-19" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[19]</a></sup> Regarding Captain America's fighting style, Evans said, "You just can't be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Bourne" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jason Bourne">Jason Bourne</a>. We gotta see this guy do stuff that's like, yeah, he deserves a spot on this squad. In [<i>Winter Soldier</i>] he's pinballing off of jets and doing unbelievable things. I don't wanna take a step back, so we gotta make sure that he's continuing training. His fight style needs to advance a little bit. I don't wanna go full <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bruce Lee">Bruce Lee</a>, but there needs to be more than just haymakers and fun kicks. There needs to be a consistent display of strength. Utilize your environment in a way that's like, 'That's right, he can pick up a motorcycle with one hand...'"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Fandango_20-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Fandango-20" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[20]</a></sup></dd></dl> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlett_Johansson" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Scarlett Johansson">Scarlett Johansson</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Widow_(Natalia_Romanova)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Black Widow (Natalia Romanova)">Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow</a>:</li> </ul> <dl style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An Avenger who formerly worked for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.H.I.E.L.D." style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="S.H.I.E.L.D.">S.H.I.E.L.D.</a> as a highly trained spy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Johansson_21-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Johansson-21" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[21]</a></sup> Producer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Feige" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Kevin Feige">Kevin Feige</a> stated that more of the character's backstory is explored in the film.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BlackWidowBackstory_22-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-BlackWidowBackstory-22" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[22]</a></sup> Johansson elaborated, "In <i>Avengers 2</i> we go back... we definitely learn more about Widow's backstory, and we get to find out how she became the person you see. All of these characters have deep, dark pasts, and I think that the past catches up to some of us a little bit."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Johansson2_23-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Johansson2-23" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[23]</a></sup> On where the film picks up Widow's story, Johansson said, "At this stage, when you see the Widow, she's—especially in <i>Avengers</i>, these characters all have a past, and hers is a very complex one, where she's realizing—and it's kind of a continuation of [<i>The Winter Soldier</i>]—'I've never made an active choice. I'm a product of other people's imposition.' That's going to catch up with her. That's bound to have a huge effect. There's got to be a result of that realization... You'll see her actively making some choices in her life, for better or worse."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Johansson3_24-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Johansson3-24" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[24]</a></sup> A mixture of close-ups, concealing costumes, stunt doubles and visual effects were used to help hide Johansson's pregnancy during filming.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-JohanssonPregnancyEW_25-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-JohanssonPregnancyEW-25" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[25]</a></sup></dd></dl> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Renner" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jeremy Renner">Jeremy Renner</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkeye_(comics)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hawkeye (comics)">Clint Barton / Hawkeye</a>:</li> </ul> <dl style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An Avenger and master <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archery" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Archery">archer</a> who previously worked as an agent for S.H.I.E.L.D.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Renner_26-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Renner-26" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[26]</a></sup> Whedon said that Hawkeye interacts more with the other characters in the film, as opposed to the first film where the character had been "possessed pretty early by a bad guy and had to walk around all scowly."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MTV2_27-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-MTV2-27" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[27]</a></sup> As the character did not appear in any other of Marvel's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_films#Phase_Two" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films">Phase Two films</a>, Whedon stated <i>Age of Ultron</i> sheds light on to what the character was doing since the end of <i>The Avengers</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WhedonDec2014_16-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-WhedonDec2014-16" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[16]</a></sup> About the character, Renner said, "[Hawkeye] is kind of a loner anyway, and he's a team player only 'cause he sort of has to be. He's not really a company man. Captain America can be that guy. In [<i>Age of Ultron</i>] you'll understand why [Hawkeye] thinks the way he thinks."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Fandango_20-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Fandango-20" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[20]</a></sup></dd></dl> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Cheadle" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Don Cheadle">Don Cheadle</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Machine" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="War Machine">James "Rhodey" Rhodes / War Machine</a>: An officer in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="United States Air Force">U.S. Air Force</a> and Tony Stark's close personal friend who operates the War Machine armor.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Cheadle_28-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Cheadle-28" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[28]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SerkisKlaw_29-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-SerkisKlaw-29" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[29]</a></sup></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Taylor-Johnson" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Aaron Taylor-Johnson">Aaron Taylor-Johnson</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_(comics)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Quicksilver (comics)">Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver</a>:</li> </ul> <dl style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The twin brother of the Scarlet Witch, who can move at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedster_(fiction)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Speedster (fiction)">superhuman speed</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Olsen.2FTJConfirmed_30-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Olsen.2FTJConfirmed-30" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[30]</a></sup> About the character Taylor-Johnson said, "Him [<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sic">sic</a></i>] and his sister [Scarlet Witch] have been abandoned by their parents and their father, and they grew up in Eastern Europe defending and looking out for themselves and each other... His sister really is his guidance—emotionally she's the one who looks after him, and vice versa. He's very overprotective physically—he doesn't want anyone touching her." Taylor-Johnson also said that Quicksilver has "real anger frustration" and is easily bored because of a short attention span.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Quicksilver4_31-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Quicksilver4-31" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[31]</a></sup> Feige stated exploring Quicksilver's relationship with his sister and his backstory growing up in Eastern Europe would help differentiate the character from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Peters" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Evan Peters">Evan Peters</a>' version in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_Days_of_Future_Past" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="X-Men: Days of Future Past">X-Men: Days of Future Past</a></i> (2014).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-QuicksilverXMen_32-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-QuicksilverXMen-32" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[32]</a></sup> Taylor-Johnson stated that the running style for Quicksilver went through multiple iterations, saying, "The running style we tested early on was just very one-dimensional and boring to look at, but if you try to do free running, like parkour, then that's very much Captain America's style... You have to find your own place in the stunt world."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DigitalSpy_5-3" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-DigitalSpy-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup> Much of Taylor-Johnson's scenes were filmed outdoors to give "life" to his running, as opposed to running on a treadmill in front of a green screen.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WhedonTwins_33-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-WhedonTwins-33" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[33]</a></sup></dd></dl> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Olsen" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Elizabeth Olsen">Elizabeth Olsen</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Witch" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Scarlet Witch">Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch</a>:</li> </ul> <dl style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The twin sister of Quicksilver, who can harness magic and engage in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hypnosis">hypnosis</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychokinesis" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Psychokinesis">telekinesis</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Olsen.2FTJConfirmed_30-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Olsen.2FTJConfirmed-30" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[30]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TeamUltron_34-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-TeamUltron-34" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[34]</a></sup> Olsen said, "The reason she's so special is because she has such a vast amount of knowledge that she's unable to learn how to control it. No one taught her how to control it properly. So it gets the best of her. It's not that she's mentally insane, it's just that she's just overly stimulated. And she can connect to this world and parallel worlds at the same time, and parallel times."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TeamUltron_34-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-TeamUltron-34" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[34]</a></sup> Describing her character's mind control powers, Olsen said, "I am able to go into someone's head and they'd never see. I can feel and see what they feel and see. So it's not just me manipulating them. What I love about her is that, in so many superhero films, emotions are kind of negated a bit, but for her everything that someone else could feel—like their weakest moments—she physically goes through that same experience with them, which is pretty cool."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-OlsenIGN_35-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-OlsenIGN-35" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[35]</a></sup> Olsen drew on her relationship with her older brother and her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary-Kate_and_Ashley_Olsen" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen">sisters</a> to prepare for the role,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TeamUltron_34-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-TeamUltron-34" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[34]</a></sup> as well as looking to the comics for inspiration.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DigitalSpy_5-4" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-DigitalSpy-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup> Olsen revealed that Whedon was inspired by dancers as a way to visually represent how the character moves. As such, Olsen mostly trained with a dancer in lieu of traditional stunt training.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-OlsenJan2015_36-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-OlsenJan2015-36" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[36]</a></sup> Olsen is signed for this film and another.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WhedonTwins_33-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-WhedonTwins-33" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[33]</a></sup></dd></dl> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bettany" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Bettany">Paul Bettany</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Jarvis#J.A.R.V.I.S." style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Edwin Jarvis">J.A.R.V.I.S.</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_(Marvel_Comics)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Vision (Marvel Comics)">Vision</a>:</li> </ul> <dl style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Bettany, who voiced J.A.R.V.I.S., Stark's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Artificial intelligence">A.I.</a> companion in previous films, was cast again as the Vision,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-JARVIS_37-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-JARVIS-37" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[37]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Vision_38-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Vision-38" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[38]</a></sup> an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(robot)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Android (robot)">android</a> created by Ultron.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Vision2_39-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Vision2-39" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[39]</a></sup> About the casting, Bettany said, "I got a call on a Friday night from Joss going 'Do you want to be the Vision?' I can't explain the amount of luck that went into that. And frankly for ages, because I understood once you were one character in a Marvel series and never another, I understood that was my thing. I'd be J.A.R.V.I.S. and get my bag of cash and go."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BettanySuperHeroHype_40-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-BettanySuperHeroHype-40" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[40]</a></sup> On what intrigued him about the Vision, Bettany said, "The thing that appealed to me is that this sort of nascent creature being born, being both omnipotent and totally naive, the sort of danger of that and complex nature of a thing being born that is that powerful and that created in a second and the choices he makes morally are really complex and interesting. They've really managed to maintain all of that".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BettanySuperHeroHype_40-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-BettanySuperHeroHype-40" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[40]</a></sup> Bettany also stated that the Vision feels paternal and protective to a number of people in the film, particularly Scarlet Witch, and has the ability to change his density. Bettany did wire work for the part.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BettanySuperHeroHype_40-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-BettanySuperHeroHype-40" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[40]</a></sup> Whedon stated he wanted to include the Vision before he signed onto the first film, explaining, "I said, 'Well, I don't know if I'm right for this or if I want it or you want me, but in the second one, the villain has Ultron [<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sic">sic</a></i>] and he has to create the Vision, and then, that has to be Paul Bettany.'"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WhedonDec2014_16-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-WhedonDec2014-16" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[16]</a></sup> Bettany's make-up, which consisted of a mix of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_painting#Face_painting" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Body painting">face paint</a> and prosthetics, took two-hours to apply with make-up artists Jeremy Woodhead and Nik Williams citing the correct hue of the Vision's skin as the hardest thing to figure out.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MakeUpMag_41-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-MakeUpMag-41" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[41]</a></sup></dd></dl> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobie_Smulders" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cobie Smulders">Cobie Smulders</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Hill" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Maria Hill">Maria Hill</a>:</li> </ul> <dl style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A former high-ranking S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who now works for Stark.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Smulders_42-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Smulders-42" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[42]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SmuldersDescription_43-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-SmuldersDescription-43" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[43]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SmuldersStark_44-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-SmuldersStark-44" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[44]</a></sup> Describing Hill's situation in the film, Smulders said, "I think, you know, after [<i>Captain America: The Winter Soldier</i>]...you're sort of left a bit shell shocked, and I think we're coming into this movie where we don't really know who's a good guy and who's a bad guy and she's trying to figure out that throughout this film." She added, "She's not getting any sleep. She's doing all the work. She doesn't have the kind of manpower that she had in S.H.I.E.L.D."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SmuldersComicCon_45-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-SmuldersComicCon-45" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[45]</a></sup> Elaborating on this, Smulders later said, "She's working for Tony Stark, yes, but they shot so many locations all over the world and this team is out doing all sorts of things. So I like to think that Maria is at headquarters, trying to keep everything running as smoothly as possible. And working for Tony Stark is a whole other ballgame. She doesn't have S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel to back her up at her disposal, so it's an entirely different vibe for her."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SmuldersEW_46-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-SmuldersEW-46" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[46]</a></sup></dd></dl> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Mackie" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Anthony Mackie">Anthony Mackie</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_(comics)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Falcon (comics)">Sam Wilson / Falcon</a>:</li> </ul> <dl style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Pararescue" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="United States Air Force Pararescue">pararescueman</a> trained by the military in aerial combat using a specially designed wing pack and a friend of Steve Rogers.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mackie_47-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Mackie-47" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[47]</a></sup> Discussing the relationship between Wilson and Rogers, Mackie said, "With Falcon and Cap, what's so great is there's a mutual respect. There's a soldier respect. What's great about <i>Age of Ultron</i> and [<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America:_Civil_War" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Captain America: Civil War">Captain America: Civil War</a></i>] is you get to see their relationship grow."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mackie2_48-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Mackie2-48" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[48]</a></sup> Feige said, "We designed the new Falcon costume for [the later film] <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant-Man_(film)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ant-Man (film)">Ant-Man</a></i>. Which we then reshot for [the final scene of] <i>Age of Ultron</i> because we had shot ... originally in the old Falcon outfit."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NewFalcon_49-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-NewFalcon-49" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[49]</a></sup></dd></dl> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayley_Atwell" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hayley Atwell">Hayley Atwell</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Carter" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Peggy Carter">Peggy Carter</a>: A retired officer with the Strategic Scientific Reserve and a co-founder of S.H.I.E.L.D., who is a former love interest of Steve Rogers.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Atwell_50-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Atwell-50" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[50]</a></sup></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_Elba" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Idris Elba">Idris Elba</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimdall_(comics)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Heimdall (comics)">Heimdall</a>: The all-seeing, all-hearing Asgardian sentry of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifr%C3%B6st" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bifröst">Bifröst Bridge</a>, based on the mythological deity of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimdall" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Heimdall">same name</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Elba_51-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Elba-51" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[51]</a></sup></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellan_Skarsg%C3%A5rd" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Stellan Skarsgård">Stellan Skarsgård</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Selvig" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Erik Selvig">Erik Selvig</a>: An astrophysicist and a friend of Thor.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Skarsgard_52-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Skarsgard-52" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[52]</a></sup></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Spader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="James Spader">James Spader</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultron" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ultron">Ultron</a>:</li> </ul> <dl style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Artificial intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> repurposed by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner for a pilot peace program that is overwhelmed with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_complex" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="God complex">god complex</a>, and now desires to pacify the Earth by eradicating humanity.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Vision2_39-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Vision2-39" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[39]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Spader_53-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Spader-53" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[53]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Spader2_54-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Spader2-54" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[54]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-EWUltron2_55-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-EWUltron2-55" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[55]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CharacterDescriptions_56-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-CharacterDescriptions-56" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[56]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-EWSummerMoviePreview_57-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-EWSummerMoviePreview-57" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[57]</a></sup> Director Joss Whedon stated that Spader was his "first and only choice" for the role, because of his "hypnotic voice that can be eerily calm and compelling" while also being very human and humorous.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Spader3_58-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Spader3-58" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[58]</a></sup> Feige clarified, "We'll be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_capture" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Motion capture">capturing</a> his face and his body to create a whole performance... We did not hire James Spader to do a robot voice."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Spader4_59-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Spader4-59" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[59]</a></sup> Extensive scans were taken of Spader's head and body in preparation for the role.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-HollywoodReporter3_60-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-HollywoodReporter3-60" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[60]</a></sup> About the character Whedon said, "He's always trying to destroy the Avengers, goddamn it, he's got a bee in his bonnet. He's not a happy guy, which means he's an interesting guy. He's got pain. And the way that manifests is not going to be standard robot stuff."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-EWUltron_61-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-EWUltron-61" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[61]</a></sup> Whedon added that Ultron is "not a creature of logic—he's a robot who's genuinely disturbed. We're finding out what makes him menacing and at the same time endearing and funny and strange and unexpected, and everything a robot never is."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-EmpireApril2014_62-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-EmpireApril2014-62" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[62]</a></sup> Whedon compared Ultron to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein%27s_monster" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Frankenstein's monster">Frankenstein's monster</a>, saying, "It's our new<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Frankenstein">Frankenstein</a></i> myth [...] We create something in our own image and the thing turns on us. It has that pain of 'Well, why was I made? I want to kill Daddy.'"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-EWFeb2014_63-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-EWFeb2014-63" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[63]</a></sup> Spader called the character "self-absorbed" and added, "I think he sees the Avengers as being part of a problem, a more comprehensive problem in the world. He sees the world from a very strange, [biblical] point of view because he's brand new, he's very young... He's immature, and yet has knowledge of comprehensive, broad history and precedent, and he has created in a very short period of time a rather skewed worldview."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-EWComicCon_64-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-EWComicCon-64" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[64]</a></sup></dd></dl> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_L._Jackson" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Samuel L. Jackson">Samuel L. Jackson</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Fury" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Nick Fury">Nick Fury</a>:</li> </ul> <dl style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The former director of S.H.I.E.L.D. who originally recruited the Avengers and continues to be a mentor and leader for the team.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CharacterDescriptions_56-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-CharacterDescriptions-56" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[56]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Jackson_65-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Jackson-65" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[65]</a></sup> Jackson described the role as a cameo, saying, "I'm just kind of passing by there ... Because, it's another one of those 'people who have powers fighting people who have powers'. That's why I didn't get to New York in <i>The Avengers</i>. There's not a lot I could do except shoot a gun."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Jackson3_66-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Jackson3-66" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[66]</a></sup></dd></dl> <div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kretschmann" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Thomas Kretschmann">Thomas Kretschmann</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Goodman" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Henry Goodman">Henry Goodman</a> reprise their roles as Baron <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Strucker" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Baron Strucker">Wolfgang von Strucker</a> and Dr. List,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Kretschmann_67-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Kretschmann-67" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[67]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Goodman_68-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Goodman-68" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[68]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(comics)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hydra (comics)">Hydra</a> leaders who specialize in human experimentation, advanced robotics, and artificial intelligence from <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America:_The_Winter_Soldier" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Captain America: The Winter Soldier">Captain America: The Winter Soldier</a></i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CharacterDescriptions_56-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-CharacterDescriptions-56" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[56]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Cardellini" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Linda Cardellini">Linda Cardellini</a> portrays Laura Barton, Hawkeye's wife.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Cardellini_69-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Cardellini-69" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[69]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CardelliniRise_70-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-CardelliniRise-70" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[70]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Kim" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Claudia Kim">Claudia Kim</a> portrays Helen Cho, a world-renowned geneticist who helps the Avengers from her office in Seoul,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CharacterDescriptions_56-3" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-CharacterDescriptions-56" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[56]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-HelenCho_71-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-HelenCho-71" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[71]</a></sup> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Serkis" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Andy Serkis">Andy Serkis</a> portrays <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaw_(Marvel_Comics)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Klaw (Marvel Comics)">Ulysses Klaue</a>, a black-market arms dealer, smuggler and gangster, who is a former acquaintance of Stark's from his weapons-dealing days.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SerkisKlaw_29-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-SerkisKlaw-29" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[29]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CharacterDescriptions_56-4" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-CharacterDescriptions-56" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[56]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Serkis2_72-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Serkis2-72" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[72]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Delpy" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Julie Delpy">Julie Delpy</a>appears as Madame B., who mentored Black Widow into becoming an assassin.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Delpy_73-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Delpy-73" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[73]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Condon" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Kerry Condon">Kerry Condon</a> voices the artificial intelligence F.R.I.D.A.Y., Stark's replacement for J.A.R.V.I.S.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Condon_74-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Condon-74" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[74]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Brolin" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Josh Brolin">Josh Brolin</a> makes an uncredited appearance during the mid-credits scene as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanos" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Thanos">Thanos</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Brolin_75-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Brolin-75" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[75]</a></sup> Avengers co-creator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Stan Lee">Stan Lee</a> makes a cameo appearance in the film as a military veteran who attends the Avengers' victory party.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lee_76-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-Lee-76" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[76]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hiddleston" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tom Hiddleston">Tom Hiddleston</a> was cast as Loki, but his scenes did not make the theatrical cut of the film.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-LokiCut_77-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#cite_note-LokiCut-77" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[77]</a></sup></div> </div> </div> </div>

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