Fantastic Four star Pedro Pascal wanted to use an authentic '60s accent as Reed Richards, but Marvel said "talk more like yourself": "I had a hard time doing that"

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Pedro Pascal perfected a Transatlantic accent for Reed Richards

Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards in The Fantastic Four: The First Steps
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Pedro Pascal, who plays Reed Richards in the upcoming Marvel Phase 6 movie The Fantastic Four: First Steps, has revealed he worked on a Transatlantic accent for the role – but had to drop it.

The movie is set in an alternate version of the '60s, so an old timey accent would've made perfect sense.

"They had to keep on pulling me back from a very Mid-Atlantic, early '60s kind of talk. They had a dialect coach that was sort of gonna help us into that kind of dialect," Pascal told Vanity Fair. "And I took to it so well… They were like, 'Uh, talk more like yourself.'"

Molly Edwards
Molly Edwards
Deputy Entertainment Editor

I'm the Deputy Entertainment Editor here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site's Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.

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