Kevin Feige, Vanessa Kirby, Pedro Pascal And Ralph Ineson Talks Fantastic Four: First Steps

In a recent preview from Empire, Kevin Feige, Vanessa Kirby, Pedro Pascal and Ralph Ineson talks Fantastic Four: First Steps. The quotes from each were posted across four articles from Empire Online, so I’ll put all four links here. Feige, Kirby, Pascal, Ineson.

Let’s start with Marvel boss Kevin Feige, who finally has his hands on Marvel’s first family.

“When Disney bought Fox, it was really an unexpected dream come true,” Feige explains. “It came at the perfect time, to help us launch into a new era. They are Marvel’s First Family, and I really wanted to do them justice.”

“There was still a bit of fear of being silly,” he says of the previous Fox films. Now, it’s time to embrace the ‘60s retro-future; the groovy cosmic vibes; and, yes, a comic-accurate depiction of planet-eating baddie Galactus, no longer rendered cinematically as a giant cloud. “In another time, some might consider the notion of somebody with a big, angular helmet walking through a city goofy,” Feige says. “I consider it awesome.”

Next up we have Vanessa Kirby who of course plays Sue and is being tipped as the real lead of the film.

“I’m such a Sue nerd,” Kirby tells Empire, in the world-exclusive The Fantastic Four: First Steps issue, looking back on her first meeting at Marvel. “I think I out-nerded everyone in that room.”

“I got so into quantum physics,” she laughs. “It’s sad how much I got into it. I could waffle on about cellular vibration frequency.” This version of the character, director Matt Shakman says, is “the inspiring, idealistic, leader of what the Fantastic Four represents, as she is in some of the later comic runs. She’s essentially the Secretary-General of the UN.”

Kirby also had a tease about Franklin, whom we know she gives birth to in the film.

“It’s not just adults that have superpowers,” teases Kirby.

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As for Sue’s husband Reed Richards, played by Pedro Pascal.

“I see a limitless amount of layers to this character,” he tells Empire. As well as facing impending parenthood, alongside Vanessa Kirby’s pregnant Sue Storm, Reed’s alternate-Earth is in the path of planet-eating cosmic behemoth Galactus – plenty for the character’s super-sized mind to mull over. “He does the ultimate version of catastrophising,” teases Pascal. “A brain that has an overview of threats on a mathematical level, but also being emotionally available. It was a fascinating contradiction.”

Finally, Ralph Ineson who plays the chief antagonist of the film, the god-like Galactus.

“He’s a cosmic force. He’s a god, of sorts,” the actor – still beloved by fans of The Office for playing the detestable ‘Finchy’ – explains. That meant driving through the tunnels of Mont Blanc, “just imagining that as his windpipe and his trachea,” he says. “I also went to a lot of tall buildings. We went to a wedding at the top of the Gherkin building in London, and I spent most of the afternoon just staring out, ruminating. I got in trouble with my wife — she was like, ‘You’ve got to say hello to the bride and groom at some point!’”

“I don’t think Galactus is evil,” he says.

Well, he never was in the comics, so that’s a good sign.

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