Overview

• The 50-year-old actor said heightened nerves from fans’ deep attachment to the characters made him more sensitive to backlash
• He described criticism over his casting as “coming with the territory” and said external negativity finds you no matter how much you try to shield yourself
• Pascal emphasized that he will give “all my focus and all my heart and my body and my soul” to fulfil expectations for Reed Richards
• At age 50, he becomes the oldest actor to portray Mister Fantastic, following previous interpretations by Ioan Gruffudd, Miles Teller and John Krasinski
• Fantastic Four: First Steps sends Pascal’s Reed Richards and co-stars Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach into a retro-futuristic 1960s alternate universe