Pedro Pascal was lauded by several of his co-stars in a new Vanity Fair cover story, most notably by Robert Downey Jr. The two stars are set to face off against each other in the upcoming Marvel movie “Avengers: Doomsday,” which has been filming this summer at Pinewood Studios in the U.K. ahead of a December 2026 release date.
The two actors have gotten close on the “Doomsday” set, with Downey hosting “homework days” at his home for the cast to presumably workshop scenes. Pascal would not reveal exactly what goes down on these days, only answering the question with the following remark: “Very good question.”
Downey is playing the villain Doctor Doom in the new “Avengers” movie, a dramatic heel turn from his Marvel tenure as Iron Man, while Pascal will be reprising his “Fantastic Four” character Reed Richards. Pascal makes his Marvel debut in July’s “Fantastic Four: First Steps.”
“Pascal’s slow trajectory to becoming a household name who is on a wildly hot streak kind of reaffirms my faith in our industry,” Downey told Vanity Fair about his co-star and friend.
Pascal returned the favor by saying of Downey: “He’s just so immediately generous and inviting that you feel like you can be afraid, you can be hungry, you can be ambivalent.” Pascal said he was well aware about the “disgruntlement around my casting” as Reed Richards, with people complaining: “He’s too old. He’s not right. He needs to shave.” He turned to Downey during these difficult times and remained committed to his Marvel role.
“He doesn’t have much armor, so he shows himself to you straight away, and you trust that person because he’s revealing himself to you in this very brave way,” Pascal’s “Fantastic Four” co-star Vanessa Kirby added about the actor.
Other co-stars who participated in Pascal’s Vanity Fair cover story include Bella Ramsey, who became a close friend of Pascal’s during their time on HBO’s “The Last of Us” together. Ramsey told the magazine that she dislikes the “daddy” label that’s become synonymous with Pascal on social media. Pascal is often called the internet’s daddy and even embraced the term when he said during a 2022 Vanity Fair video interview: “Daddy is a state of mind. I’m your daddy.”
“I felt worried for him,” Ramsey said. I want to protect him from that whole joke of becoming the internet’s daddy. I was like, ‘I don’t want everyone to refer to you as that and see you as that. You’re so much more.’”
Head over to Vanity Fair’s website to read Pascal’s cover story in its entirety.
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