David Krumholtz Really Wants to Join the MCU
David Krumholtz REALLY wants to be in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
A huge comic book fan, Krumholtz has previously publically campaigned to portray Ben Grimm/The Thing in The Fantastic Four.
“It’s been a big, sort of unabashedly craven goal of mine to be part of the MCU in some way. I met [director] Matt Shakman for Ben Grimm,” he told EW.
Fans quickly rallied to Krumholtz’s cause even though the actor quickly deleted his post. As it turns out, the campaign worked. Or at least it got Krumholtz a meeting with Shakman.
“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,” he says. “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. 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 s— out of it, the idea of how committed and passionate I was for it. But obviously that didn’t happen.”
A Longtime Comic Fan
Krumholtz’s comic book fandom comes from a lifetime of reading Marvel Comics.
“I wasn’t a big DC guy. I just read Marvel and it became an obsession. And I even worked at a comic book store before I became an actor, and I got paid in comics. I was 11. So when Marvel started making films, it was mind-blowing. I remember thinking when I was a kid reading these comics that these would be amazing films, but they couldn’t do them. There wasn’t the technology to do them properly. And suddenly there was, and suddenly they were getting it all right. And they were true to the costumes and true to every little detail.”
In the end, the role of Ben Grimm went to Ebon Moss-Bachrach, not Krumholtz. Still, the Oppenheimer star has no ill feelings.
“I think Ebon Moss-Bachrach is a really great choice,” he says. “It makes way more sense in some ways.”
How About Mole Man?
With the role of The Thing filled, Krumholtz now has his sights set on a different Fantastic Four character. He wants to play Mole Man.
“It’s not a joke at all,” Krumholtz says of his recent social media post campaigning for Mole Man. “I mean, it’s a shoe-in for Mole Man, isn’t it? But I don’t know. I’ll do anything Marvel tells me to. I’ll probably end up playing like a superhero’s therapist. Let’s face it. There’s slim pickings for guys like me in that world, unfortunately. I’m old and I’m not in any kind of acceptable shape. So we’ll see how that works out, if it works out at all.”
Hopefully, Krumholtz will get the chance to play an MCU character after all.
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