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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

David Krumholtz met "The Fantastic Four" director Matt Shakman, but the role of Ben Grimm ended up going to Ebon Moss-Bachrach instead.

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.” 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. He recently used social media to express interest in playing the Fantastic Four’s villain Mole Man.

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