Mark Ruffalo says he would ‘dream’ of how to punch Ryan Reynolds in the face during this project

Rumor has it, Mark Ruffalo was subconsciously thinking about ways to punch his co-star in the face.

The actor, 57, confessed that while filming the 2022 sci-fi action film, “Adam Project,” he used an odd technique to hit Ryan Reynolds.

“I had a dream that that’s what the punch should look like, and I just did what I did in my dream,” Ruffalo revealed while talking to GQ. “And we did it, and they were all laughing, and [director Shawn Levy’s] like, ‘Well, let’s do it again, but I think we have it.’”

In the movie, a scene showed Reynolds’ character, who was a future version of Ruffalo’s son, punch his dad.

Ruffalo’s character then hits him back by jumping up into the air and kicking his leg up behind him as he moves forward to strike his co-star in the face.

“That was one of those moments where the spontaneity just — it was right,” shared the “13 Going on 30” alum.

And Ruffalo was a one take wonder, replying that he only had to hit Reynolds “once.”

Earlier this month, the “Avengers” star also reflected on working with another co-star, Woody Harrelson, while shooting “Now You See Me.”

Ruffalo admitted that he once rescued Harrelson, 64, from a bar fight while filming in Louisiana.

“We were shooting ‘Now You See Me’ in New Orleans, completely on the streets,” he recalled while on Harrelson and Ted Danson’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast. “Totally wild.”

“Capturing stuff on a long lens, getting dragged into bars during the middle of a scene, like in the middle of Mardi Gras,” he added.

Ruffalo and Harrelson decided to pop into a crowded bar for a drink after a long day of filming the 2013 heist film – which turned out to be a mistake.

“It was a packed place,” the “Task” star explained to Danson, 77. “And a woman came up to him and she said, ‘Oh my God, I love you so much.’ Woody put his hand on her arm, and he said, ‘Oh, thank you. Thank you, darling.’”

“And this guy comes over and he pushes her outta the way,” Ruffalo continued, “and he shoves Woody.”

Danson, who has been good friends with Harrelson since he joined the cast of “Cheers” in 1985, shook his head at their guest’s story.

“Oh, bad bad,” the “Good Place” actor muttered. “Not good.”

“Bad,” Ruffalo concurred. “Because Woody’s first response is not ‘shove someone back,’ but ‘immediately punch them in the face.’”

“Which is the right thing to do, by the way,” he continued. “It’s the absolute right thing to do. But then a whole melee broke out in this bar. I was in the middle of it, and it was getting to become a whole thing. And I grabbed you.”

Harrelson corroborated his “Now You See Me” co-star’s recollection.

“I grabbed you and I pulled you out,” Ruffalo explained. “Because I was like, this could be fun, but it also could go so disastrously wrong because you and I might be able to handle ourselves, but the rest of the folks we were with… I don’t think so.”