Oppenheimer actor says he "begged" The Fantastic Four director to cast him as The Thing: "Obviously that didn't happen"

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“I was embarrassed,” Krumholtz remembered.

“My post said, ‘I just want to be in the conversation.’

And it was a picture of the Thing, and Matt saw it somehow.

And I had a meeting with him and we discussed it.

But obviously that didn’t happen.”

“I’ll do anything Marvel tells me to.

I’ll probably end up playing like a superhero’s therapist.

Let’s face it,” he joked.

“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.”

The film willreportedly be set in 1963.

The Fantastic Four is set to release on July 25, 2025.