David Krumholtz Lost Out on ‘Fantastic Four’ After Meeting the Director and ‘Just Begging’ to Play The Thing: ‘Slim Pickings For Guys Like Me’ in the MCU
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director From a Christopher Nolan set to the Marvel Cinematic Universe? It’s the path “Oppenheimer” star David Krumholtz wanted to take by campaigning for the role of Ben Grimm/The Thing in the upcoming Marvel tentpole “The Fantastic Four.” The actor recently revealed to Entertainment Weekly that he met with the film’s director, Matt Shakman, to play Ben Grimm because “it’s been a big, sort of unabashedly craven goal of mine to be part of the MCU in some way.” “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,” Krumholtz explained. “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 shit out of it, the idea of how committed and passionate I was for it.
But obviously that didn’t happen.” “The Bear” Emmy winner Ebon Moss-Bachrach ended up landing the role of Ben Grimm opposite Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm. “I think Ebon Moss-Bachrach is a really great choice,” Krumholtz said. “It makes way more sense in some ways.” Missing out on the role of Ben Grimm hasn’t stopped Krumholtz for campaigning for a spot in the MCU.
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