Mark Ruffalo: I was never on a terrorist watch list, story has become'fantastical'

Despite reports that he wasn't even allowed to fly,Mark Ruffalohas never been on the terror watch list.

"The Kids Are All Right"star told theWall Street Journalthat the reports that he had been placed on the list by thePennsylvania Office of Homeland Securityfor organizing screenings of the documentary"Gasland"were exaggerated.

"I've never been stopped at the airport and I think that the story has snowballed into this incredibly fantastical thing,"he told the Journal."At the center, of course, is one small grain of truth, which is that back in September, I was hosting educational screenings of 'Gasland.'

"Pennsylvania's Homeland Security was monitoring these screenings and feeding information to the gas industry. And they got busted. It was a huge embarrassment and the head of their Homeland Security had to resign over it,"Ruffalo, 43, added.

While theDepartment of Homeland Securitymay have sat in on the screenings of"Gasland,"a documentary about the natural gas industry - along with numerous other private events in Pennsylvania, according to documents, they were never watching Ruffalo specifically, the Journal reported.

The head of the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security resigned shortly after a report came out.

The rumors may have snowballed on their own, but they started when Ruffalo told GQ that he was on the terror watch list in an interview earlier this month after he spent time promoting"Gasland".

But his no-show on the list didn't stop Ruffalo from making his plight sound so much more dramatic to GQ, when asked about being on the list.

"It's kind of raaadical,"he told the magazine.

nmandell@nydailynews.com

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