Mark Ruffalo Says13 Going on 30Is the Film Fans Ask Him About the Most: 'Love That Movie' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Mark Ruffalo in 2024 and in 2004’s ‘13 Going on 30’.Photo:Tommaso Boddi/Variety via Getty; Columbia Tri Star/Kobal/Shutterstock

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Mark Ruffalohas starred in dozens of movies, but when it comes to fan favorites, one stands out the most.

“People fell in love” with13 Going on 30, he recently told PEOPLE. And the feeling is mutual, he added: “I love that movie.”

Speaking remotely at the Nov. 14Center at West Park’s Fall Benefit event, for which he serves as a member of the host committee, Ruffalo, 56, said, “Probably more than every other movie, that’s the one I get people talking about when they come up to me.”

One scene from the rom-com in particular is referenced “over and over again,” he said: his character Matt’s romantic late-night run for Razzles candy withJennifer Garner’s Jenna. The four-time Oscar nominee said fans are frequently “handing me Razzles.”

Speaking to PEOPLEin April, Garner, 52, named that scene as the one she thinks about most as well. “The night that Mark and I shot in Brooklyn, looking back at Manhattan, the Razzle night,” she said at the time, “That is a favorite memory.”

Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo in 2004’s ‘13 Going on 30’.COLUMBIA PICTURES/Album/Alamy

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Now 20 years old,13 Going on 30remains a classic because of the “common denominators involved: caring for our family,” reflected Ruffalo. “I don’t care who you are, whether you want love or you felt love, every house has love in it, hopefully, some form of love.” He added, “That’s what the Center’s about.”

source: people.com