William Hurt, who plays General Thunderbolt Ross in this summer’s Incredible Hulk flick, talks to MTV about the cameo by Iron Man’s Robert Downey Jr.:

“I have a scene with Iron Man, with Robert Downey Jr.,” the Oscar-winning actor told MTV News Friday at the Sundance Film Festival. “It’s a funky scene.”

For those who haven’t heard the news, superhero house Marvel Comics is aggressively cross-pollinating its superheroes, most likely in preparation for an eventual “Avengers” movie. That means Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury will make a cameo appearance in May 2’s “Iron Man,” and ol’ metalhead himself will drop into “Hulk.” Little has been said about the scene — until now.

“I don’t know how it’ll work,” Hurt admitted, saying it was a thrill to appear as General Thaddeus Ross during Downey’s scene. “I know it’s weird [to work with a character from another movie], and to know it’s a device. We did something; I don’t know what that’s going to be like [to watch].”

The comic fan also says fans can expect a more heroic Hulk from the film: “There’s a scene, and during that scene there are a number of things happening. [Hulk] has beaten Abomination, and then there’s a crowd that gathers around, and they realize that he’s beaten Abomination. That Abomination was the one who was killing for just the joy of killing; Hulk is not the one.

“It’s the moment of turn,” Hurt says, “when society’s relationship with Hulk stops being so stupid.”

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