“The Bear” star Ebon Moss-Bachrach is detailing why Mark Ruffalo is the goat. Moss-Bachrach makes his MCU debut in “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” as Ben Grimm, aka the Thing. Ruffalo, who has been a staple in the MCU for over a decade, is well-versed in working with motion capture technology for superhero films.
Moss-Bachrach said during the “The Fantastic Rooms: First Steps” press tour in the video below that Ruffalo reached out to assure him it wouldn’t be a big deal to transform into the rock-and-roll character.
“I have a really good, really long, really thorough script by Mark Ruffalo. My character is performance capture, and I was a little anxious about that,” Moss-Bachrach said. “Somehow, he shares my insecurity. He was really generous.”
Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, and Joseph Quinn star as the eponymous heroic family at the center of the film, alongside Moss-Bachrach.
And Moss-Bachrach isn’t the only franchise star who’s received advice from a predecessor. Scarlett Johansson (who is also an MCU alum as Black Widow and was an Avenger alongside Ruffalo’s Hulk, with whom her character also had a relationship) recently told People that after she was cast in “Jurassic World Rebirth,” “Jurassic World” actress Bryce Dallas Howard shared her support.
“When I was cast, Bryce Dallas Howard reached out to me and was so excited,” Johansson said. “She wrote me a long email about her experience and how wonderful the fans were and how that was part of the excitement, joining the ‘Jurassic’ family and having these fans for life.”
Johansson has expressed that joining the franchise has been one of her career goals for years. Meanwhile, Howard starred in “Jurassic World” (2015), “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” (2018) and “Jurassic World Dominion” (2022).
“For me, as a fan, I’m so excited for ‘Jurassic World Rebirth.’ I’ll be there on opening day, and they have an incredible cast,” Howard also told ScreenRant . “I mean, Mahershala Ali, Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey. It’s going to be absolutely fantastic. I’m excited. And then maybe in 20 years or something, if they asked, of course, I would go back in a heartbeat.”
