Pedro Pascal, the star of the upcoming MCU feature The Fantastic Four: First Steps, wanted to give his character, Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic, an early ’60s Transatlantic accent, but ultimately had to give up on the idea. The movie reportedly takes place on a 1960s-inspired retro-futuristic alternate Earth, so Pascal’s idea of how he wanted to approach his character did have some merit.
Pedro Pascal talks about Reed Richards’ accent
Pascal disclosed in a recent interview with Vanity Fair that he worked on an early ’60s Transatlantic accent for Reed. However, Marvel ultimately told him to talk like his real-world self. “They had to keep on pulling me back from a very Mid-Atlantic, early ’60s kind of talk. They had a dialect coach that was sort of gonna help us into that kind of dialect,” Pascal said. “And I took to it so well… They were like, ‘Uh, talk more like yourself.'”
Pascal admitted that he had a hard time doing that during the filming of Fantastic Four because he was “so into that era.” He added that this, “for me, was something to step into so that it’s different from what we’ve seen before.”
Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the Fantastic Four has been part of Marvel Comics since 1961. Over the years, there have been several interpretations of this supercollective across films and TV. In live-action, Alex Hyde-White portrayed Reed in the English-language German feature The Fantastic Four. The movie never officially came out, though illegal copies have been circulating since 1994.
Ioan Gruffudd played Reed in 2005’s Fantastic Four and its 2007 sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Meanwhile, Miles Teller portrayed the role in the 2015 reboot. Before Pascal, John Krasinski played the Earth-838 variant of Reed in the 2022 MCU feature Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps debuts in US theaters on July 25, 2025.
Originally reported by Tamal Kundu on ComingSoon.
