Marvel: Here’s the first cast of the Avengers!

With Thor: Love & Thunder, Chris Hemsworth once again slips into the costume of the Asgardian superhero under the direction of Taika Waititi. His fellow Avengers Robert Downey Jr., Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Aaron Taylor-Johnson or Elizabeth Olsen have all come a long way in the Marvel team in recent years.

Almost forgetting that they weren’t always fighting the greatest threats and worst villains… How else did they start? Discover their first role!

Robert Downey Jr. in The Pound (1970)

Before landing the role of Iron Man, the role that allowed him to rise from the ashes, Robert Downey Jr. had a fascinating but chaotic career. Immersed in show business since childhood, he gave his first line at the age of 5, in his father Robert Downey Sr.’s film Pound, where actors play the role of imprisoned animals awaiting euthanasia. The charming Downey Jr. then plays – but very quickly – the puppy!

If this early immersion in the world of film made him the star we know today, it also made him face a lifelong struggle with drugs. Growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s surrounded by regular users, Downey Jr. was soon tempted by drug use.

The video below is indeed often accompanied by the disgusting story that a year after the shooting, his father, an addict himself, would let him try marijuana for the first time.

“When I grow up I want to be Iron Man…”

Chris Hemsworth in Guinevere Jones (2002)

Of course, Chris Hemsworth is haunted by myths and legends… and long hair! Before he became famous as Thor, the Australian actor was not yet a god with a hammer, but he still wore the crown in the Australian-Canadian fantasy series Guinevere Jones.

For this first role, the actress uniquely put herself in the shoes of King Arthur during two episodes of this series, which told how a modern girl discovers that she is the reincarnation of Queen Guinevere from Camelot…

Future Thor in Arthur’s time!

Mark Ruffalo in American Nuclear (1989)

Before portraying Bruce Banner and his alter ego the Hulk, Mark Ruffalo got his start in television. But in a very short time! In the late 1980s, he studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory in Los Angeles and founded a company with some of his friends. Theater of Orpheus For which he does almost everything: writing, directing, comedy or lighting management!

At the same time, he landed his first small-screen role in American Nuclear, a pilot commissioned by CBS that followed the everyday life of a blended family consisting of a journalist, his wife, who was also an assistant. Mary and their four children from a previous marriage.

Ruffalo played the older brother of the brothers. This pilot, created with American journalist Jimmy Breslin and inspired by his life, ended up not becoming a series and Mark Ruffalo moved on. His first important roles will be performed after 10 years…

The actor seen in the video below from 4”20 comes with a bath towel!

Scarlett Johansson “Irresistible North” (1994)

Like many friends of the Avengers, the future Natasha Romanov started her career young. Encouraged by her mother, Scarlett Johansson auditioned for commercials at the age of 7.

Because he doesn’t value being active too much, his mother decides to focus his energy on movies. Little Scarlett takes comedy classes the following weekend and sneaks up on the boards in the room. sophistryNext to Ethan Hawke.

But, his first film role, he gets it in director Rob Reiner’s The Irresistible North, where little Elijah Wood goes in search of perfect parents.

Along the way, little North crosses paths with a 4-star cast: Bruce Willis, John Ritter, Kathy Bates, Dan Aykroyd… and the future world star, Scarlett Johansson, then 9 years old! She plays John Ritter’s daughter there, and a year later, in 1995, she will star in Sean Connery’s Just Cause.

Scarlett, the perfect sister for Elijah?

Chris Evans in Biodiversity: About Wildlife! (1997)

If at the time Steve Rogers was certainly not aware of environmental issues, his translator Chris Evans began by discovering a world unknown to him: biodiversity! In 1997, the young actor, already interested in theater, really appeared in “Biodiversity: About Wild Life”, an educational program produced in the form of a documentary fiction, distributed in certain schools to raise awareness among middle and high schools. students on the issue of biodiversity.

So here he is in the shoes of a schoolboy who wants to win a competition to earn money and then gets interested in the complexity of nature. So of course this first role is a bit special… and Chris Evans then made his more traditional debut in a short opposite sex opposite Milo Ventimiglia in 2000…

When the future Captain America discovers biodiversity…

Jeremy Renner “Total Alarm” (1995)

Future Clint Burton took longer than his Avengers counterparts to see his career come to fruition. Before finally getting into comedy, Jeremy Renner also dabbled in several other disciplines, such as computer science, psychology, and even sociology. Arriving in Los Angeles in 1993 to fully dedicate himself to his acting career, he gave himself 11 years to play a real role in a film.

Two years later, he landed his first role in the teen comedy Total Alarm, which was exactly what he was looking for: a leading role. D’Agostino, a destructive, flirtatious teenager – and a kind of Kurt Cobain clone – who prefers to party than to study… a twisted film, a bit trashy, but funny, which Renner himself describes as a scene that is essential for the rest of his career.

Hawkeye as a naughty teenager looks like this!

Elizabeth Olsen “The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Olsen” (1995)

While her sisters, twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, had glittering careers as child stars in At Home With The Party and All, Elizabeth Olsen didn’t experience the same “grand” exposure in her youth. However, she regularly (but secretly) showed off her baby bump in her sisters’ various performances.

That’s how the Avengers newcomer first appeared on the small screen at the age of 5 in Mary-Kate and Ashley’s Adventures, a musical TV movie series available only on video, where her big sisters conducted various investigations… and prevented her from following them!

Mary-Kate, Ashley… and Elizabeth! We will get lost!

Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Tom and Thomas (2002)

The future Quicksilver began his acting career at an early age by appearing in several plays and commercials. In 2001, Aaron Taylor-Johnson appeared in an episode of Armadillo before starring in the Anglo-Dutch feature film Tom & Thomas. At just 11 years old, she puts herself in the twins’ shoes, years apart, and then answers Sean Bean. It’s already a big fast!

Quicksilver… in the skin of the twins!