In 2014, everyone succumbed to their devastating charm in the cult series Game of Throneswhere his role as Oberyn Martell propelled him to the rank of sex symbol during the broadcast of the fourth season on the HBO channel. A decade later, Pedro Pascal is the subject of all lusts in Hollywood, as evidenced by his overloaded news this summer: on television in The Last of Us (Max), where he evolves in an apocalyptic society plagued by a pandemic, and The Mandalorian (Disney+), spin-off of the saga Star Warsbut also in the cinema in Mattersfrom Celine Song, where he embodies a Cador of rich finance in millions and in search of a soul mate, Eddingtonfrom Ari ASTER, where he holds the high dragee at Joaquin Phoenix in America fractured by confinement in 2020, and The Fantastic 4 : First steps, from Matt Shakman, the expected reboot of Marvel Studios featuring this extraordinary league of superheroes which has been for the mission of watching over the earth and its inhabitants.
Astronauts victims of a DNA transfer
The Californian director, who is jubilant to anchor his stories in a deliciously vintage atmosphere (Wandavision), recurrence with this blockbuster whose action takes place in a retrofuturist universe in the very 1960s aesthetics. He tells the story of astronauts, Reed Richards, his wife Sue Storm, his brother-in-law Johnny Storm and his best friend Ben Grimm, who are irradiated in their rocket by a storm of cosmic rays, seriously altering their DNA and provoking irreversible mutations. To the point that they return with “anomalies”: the first, Fantastic M. has the elastic body, while the other members of the crew adopt nicknames related to their new “talents”: the invisible woman, the human torch and the thing.
Together, they form a dysfunctional family, but they remain united in the face of adversity. When their planet is threatened with annihilation by a certain Galactus, Sue Storm discovers that she is pregnant … On July 7, the gang was in Paris to give a press conference at Espace Niemeyer (Paris 19th), the headquarters of the French Communist Party, with architecture worthy of a SF setting. And, inevitably, each word and each gesture of Pedro Pascal have been dissected by the fans enamored on social networks.
Once again, the 50-year-old mustache actor, proud of his Chilean origins-his parents, political refugees in the United States, fled the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet-, has shown relaxation, spirit and humor. Especially when a journalist asked his partners if the incredible hype concerning him was justified. “But absolutely, Sled Vanessa Kirby. Simply because he himself remains in all circumstances. It’s the best! »» The interested party smiled and embarked on what seduced him in his character, Reed Richards, at the same time spatial, scientist and visionary inventor. “His intelligence and humanity, which make him accessible to the public, he said. His brain is constantly boiling. He is also able to contort. I love its ability to stretch its members beyond reason. It can catch a packet of cereals even when it is at the other end of the room! »»
The fever is not about to fall back
The actor, who faced Paul MESCAL in the arena, the sword in hand, in Gladiator 2 (2024), from Ridley Scott, will not leave the big screen as soon as it will be seen in 2026 in The Mandalorian & Grogufrom Jon Favreau, and Avengers: DoomsdayAnthony brothers and Joe Russo, who will undoubtedly have the summits of the box office. The fever is therefore not about to fall back …
The fantastic 4: first stepsfrom Matt Shakman, with Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach. 1:55. Out on Wednesday July 23.
