First Steps’ Star Pedro Pascal on the Pressors of Marvel

After suits up for Game of Thrones,, The Mandalorian,, And The Last of Us,, Pedro Pascal Knows a Thing or Two About Entering Beloved Franchises with High Expects. Pascal Leads The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Upcoming Phase 6 Opener, Fantastic Four: First Steps As the Brilliant-BUT-Burdened Patriaarch of Marvel’s First Family.

The film, directed by Wandavision‘s Matt ShakmanTakes Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Ben Back to the Retro -uteist Optimism of the 1960s –With a Twist. It’s not our ’60s, but one from a portalel Earth in the Multiverse when Utopian Ideas ACTually Became Real. It’s a big role for a man used to perfecting on the Biggest Stage, But Steping into Marvel’s Fantastic Four: First Steps AS Reed RichardsAKA MR. Fantastic? That, Even for Him, was Daunting, as He Told Ew.

“It was really intimidating. You really what to make people haapy, especially if it’s words that’s Widily Known with Particular Expectations Around it. Each time. I entry to. This.

PASCAL Stars Alongside Vanessa Kirby AS SUE Storm, Joseph Quinn As Johnny Storm, and EBON MOSS-BACHRACH AS Ben Grimm. The team must face a cosmic Crisis unlike any they’ve seen -Yes, that Means Galactus, this time Portrayed in Full Purple-AD-BLUE Armor By Ralphinson. And yes, Marvel is skipping doctor doom -lle, so they’re says, at least.

Reed Richards Is “Awstruck” by Galactus

EW Visited the Set of the Movie During A Key Scene, Where Pascal Was Seen Shooting “Cut the Power!” On a Massive Pinewood Studios Stage Dering What Shakman Descrabes As the Film’s “All Is Lost” Moment. It’s The Point in Any Good Hero’s Journey where the Plan Collapses, Hope Fades, and a New Solution Must Be Found.

“Even The Smartest Man in the World is Awstruck by a Being that Outdates His Undersanding of Time“Pascal Says of Reed Facing Galactus.

Pascal’s Take on Reed Leans En It’s a challenge that reflects The Actor’s Own MindSet Going INTO This Monumental Role.

“You also will to be authentic to youlself so that it can be the best that it can be for anybody who Whatself to be entertained by a story and track with us INTO This World.”

Fantastic Four: First Steps Hits Theats JULY 25, 2025.

Source: EW