“I have family members who are bipolar, and there’s mental illness in my family, and depression as well, so I felt like I knew that part,” Ruffalo said. “But what was more difficult for me was the Brahmin, blue-blood Bostonian. Maya’s family came over in the Mayflower a couple hundred years ago, and my family basically rode a boat here like four years ago, so that part was really different for me.”
