Pedro Pascal Talks Deciding to Join 'Fantastic Four' Movie & How a Lemonade Stand Sealed His Fate
Pedro Pascal is opening up about joining the cast of Fantastic Four: The First Steps.
The 50-year-old actor will make his first MCU appearance as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic in the upcoming movie, and he’ll be back in Avengers: Doomsday.
In a new feature ahead of the film’s release, Pedro revealed how a lemonade stand sealed his decision to say yes to the role.
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“It was a big strange thing that I hadn’t planned on happening. It changed the course of my life in a very sudden way, so I really had to process,” he shared with EW.
“I went on a walk with one of my best friends, and while I was talking about it, this charming little girl very aggressively started to sell me lemonade from a lemonade stand. I was so charmed when I heard this voice saying, ‘What are you doing here?’ I look up, and it’s [director] Matt Shakman,” Pedro continued. “It’s his daughter! Literally the Sunday after he and I had met to talk about the project. And I had literally just been discussing, ‘This is not what I expected to happen, but I think I have to do it.’ Then this happened, and as we walked away with our lemonade, my friend said, ‘I guess you’re doing it!’”
Pedro also spoke about taking on the role of Reed Richards and heralding the Fantastic Four into a new, successful iteration of the heroes.
“It was really intimidating,” he said. “I relied on the people that I was around to hold me to the experience and help get me through it. Stepping into something like Game of Thrones and then going into the early days of Netflix with Narcos and then Star Wars and the world of video games with The Last of Us, each time I’ve felt like I couldn’t top how intimidating the last one was. They’re all scary because you really want to make people happy, especially if it’s something that’s widely known with particular expectations around it because you want those expectations to be met. You also want to be authentic to yourself so that it can be the best that it can be for anybody who wants to be entertained by a story and travel with us into this world.”
If you missed it, be sure to check out the first teaser trailer!
Fantastic Four: The First Steps is set to hit theaters on July 25th.