<Li> William Hurt as Thaddeus `` Thunderbolt '' Ross : Betty 's arrogant father , who has dedicated himself to capturing the Hulk . Leterrier cast Hurt because `` Ross is more physical , more explosive in this movie , and no actor goes from zero to 100 as well as William . '' He compared Ross to Captain Ahab . The Hulk is Hurt 's favorite superhero , and his son is also a big fan of the character . Hurt found production very different from the typical `` pure anxiety '' of a studio film , finding it more akin to an independent film . He described Ross as `` humiliated by Hulk 's conscience : he actually sees and recognizes that it 's more developed than his own , even though he 's a patriot and a warrior for his country . He 's sacrificed ( much ) for that purpose , but at the expense at times of his humanity -- which he occasionally recovers . '' In June 2015 , when reflecting on how his reprisal in Captain America : Civil War was different from this film , Hurt said , `` What I created ( for The Incredible Hulk ) was a Ross who was right out of the graphic novel type of thing , where he was as much of a cartoon , in a way , as the monsters were . His ego was just as big and his problems were just as big . I really did do that consciously . I created a General Ross before which created a verisimilitude for the monsters , by making him a human monster . I worked really hard on the makeup and the exaggerated behavior and things like that and a controlled psychosis . '' Sam Elliott had expressed interest in reprising the role from the first Hulk film . </Li>
<Li> William Hurt as Thaddeus `` Thunderbolt '' Ross : Betty 's arrogant father , who has dedicated himself to capturing the Hulk . Leterrier cast Hurt because `` Ross is more physical , more explosive in this movie , and no actor goes from zero to 100 as well as William . '' He compared Ross to Captain Ahab . The Hulk is Hurt 's favorite superhero , and his son is also a big fan of the character . Hurt found production very different from the typical `` pure anxiety '' of a studio film , finding it more akin to an independent film . He described Ross as `` humiliated by Hulk 's conscience : he actually sees and recognizes that it 's more developed than his own , even though he 's a patriot and a warrior for his country . He 's sacrificed ( much ) for that purpose , but at the expense at times of his humanity -- which he occasionally recovers . '' In June 2015 , when reflecting on how his reprisal in Captain America : Civil War was different from this film , Hurt said , `` What I created ( for The Incredible Hulk ) was a Ross who was right out of the graphic novel type of thing , where he was as much of a cartoon , in a way , as the monsters were . His ego was just as big and his problems were just as big . I really did do that consciously . I created a General Ross before which created a verisimilitude for the monsters , by making him a human monster . I worked really hard on the makeup and the exaggerated behavior and things like that and a controlled psychosis . '' Sam Elliott had expressed interest in reprising the role from the first Hulk film . </Li>
who plays the general in the incredible hulk
who plays the general in the incredible hulk
William Hurt
William Hurt