Now that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has its Fantastic Four cast, one of the actors who lost out on one of the gigs still wants to join the movie.
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Summary
- David Krumholtz wants to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe after originally aiming for a role in Fantastic Four.
- Krumholtz met with director Matt Shakman to discuss potentially playing The Thing, but the role didn’t manifest.
- Despite feeling limited by his age and shape, Krumholtz is open to playing any role Marvel offers, even if it’s a superhero’s therapist.
After having tried to land one of the main roles in Fantastic Four, Oppenheimer star David Krumholtz is still wanting to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Krumholtz opens up on how he had a conversation with Fantastic Four director Matt Shakman about the role of The Thing. While he didn’t get cast as Ben Grimm, Krumholtz instead wants to play one of the iconic Fantastic Four villains, sharing the following:
I only met him on the strength of a Twitter post or an Instagram post that I then took down two hours after I posted it. I was embarrassed. My post said, ‘I just want to be in the conversation.’ And it was a picture of the Thing, and Matt saw it somehow. And I had a meeting with him and we discussed it. And I’ve never been so bold in a meeting before, just begging for the role, just straight up selling the s— out of it, the idea of how committed and passionate I was for it. But obviously that didn’t happen.
It’s not a joke at all [Krumholtz responds about his latest social media post where he is campaigning for Mole Man.] I mean, it’s a shoo-in for Mole Man, isn’t it? But I don’t know. I’ll do anything Marvel tells me to. I’ll probably end up playing like a superhero’s therapist. Let’s face it. There’s slim pickings for guys like me in that world, unfortunately. I’m old and I’m not in any kind of acceptable shape. So we’ll see how that works out, if it works out at all.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
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This story originally appeared on Screenrant
