Mark Ruffalo on 'All the Light We Cannot See': 'It's About Humanity'
WATCH: The cast of the Golden Globe-nominated limited series joined Janice Min for a special FYC event featuring a Q&A and screening
The cast of Golden Globes-nominated limited series All the Light We Cannot See, adapted from Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, came together Dec. 3 for the first time since the actors strike for a special SAG event hosted by The Ankler in partnership with Netflix. Aria Mia Loberti (Marie-Laure LeBlanc) and Louis Hofmann (Werner Pfennig), along with virtual panelists Hugh Laurie (Etienne LeBlanc) and Mark Ruffalo (Daniel LeBlanc) joined Ankler CEO Janice Min at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood for a conversation at turns highly emotional and laugh-out-loud entertaining.
Afterwards, the rapt audience screened the premier episode of the Shawn Levy-directed project.
In the conversation (watch below), newcomer Loberti, a legally blind Fulbright scholar and PhD student, describes how she landed the role of the show’s blind heroine, moving the audience to tears with her personal experience around accurate on-screen representation of people with disabilities; Hofmann, a German, described his approach to playing a boy reluctantly recruited into the Nazi youth; and Laurie, in the role of a World War I veteran whose PTSD carries into World War II, tells what it took to play the challenging part. As the war between Russia and Ukraine unfolded in real time during the filming of scenes in Hungary, real-life Ukrainian refugees who had crossed the border into the neighboring country served as extras playing Parisian fleeing conflict. Says Ruffalo of the series: “It's really about humanity. What we share is much greater than what we don't.”
All The Light We Cannot See is nominated for a Golden Globe in the category of best television limited series, anthology series, or motion picture made for television. For SAG, Hofmann is submitted for outstanding performance by a male actor in a television movie or limited series, and Loberti for outstanding performance by a female actor in a television movie or limited series. For Emmys 2024, All the Light We Cannot See will be submitted for outstanding limited or anthology series.