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During the rehearsal, Ruffalo broke the fourth wall just once, after uttering a weirdly contemporary-sounding line having to do with CBS’ newsroom possibly wanting to keep its distance from the slowly developing Nixon-scandal story.—Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Jan. 2026