Ebon Moss-Bachrach Didn’t Read ‘Fantastic Four’ Comics, but ‘Some of My Earliest Sexual Visions Were ‘Elfquest’
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Ebon Moss-Bachrach may be playing Ben Grimm, aka the Thing, in Marvel’s upcoming reboot of “The Fantastic Four,” but he admits he didn’t read comics about the superhero team when he was younger “I was a comic book fan, but the comic books I read when I was a kid were more like the cheaper kind of ones I could get from the five-cent bin,” the actor told me Tuesday at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Bear” Season 3. “I liked ‘Archie,’ some ‘Richie Rich.’ I really liked ‘Groo.’ I liked ‘Elfquest’ a lot.
I think some of my earliest sexual visions were ‘Elfquest.’” Moss-Bachrach’s “Fantastic Four” co-stars include Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr.
Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/the Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/the Human Torch, and Julia Garner as Shalla-Bal/Silver Surfer.
Moss-Bachrach declined to tell me what the cast has been talking about in their group chat, but he does still seem mystified that he’s been cast in such a major project. “Of course not,” he said when I asked if he ever imagined himself in a superhero movie. “It’s all pretty crazy.” He previously joked with Jimmy Kimmel that he’s preparing for his work by “looking at rocks.” Moss-Bachrach was also surprised to see what a production the “The Bear” Season 3 premiere turned out to be.
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