Pedro Pascal found it “really intimidating” taking on the Fantastic Four even after Star Wars and The Last of Us

Is it really a multi-million dollar franchise worth talking about anymore if Pedro Pascal’s name doesn’t appear somewhere in it? After turning heads by getting his popped in Game of Thrones, then being television’s action hero dad in both The Mandalorian and The Last of Us, he’s now set to stretch into the role of Reed Richards, aka Mister Fantastic, in The Fantastic Four: First Steps. You’d think by this point, he’s happy playing hero, but as revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the pressure of taking on such an iconic part still comes with some stress on getting things just right.

“It was really intimidating,” explained Pascal, taking on the character that leads his wife, brother-in-law, and best friend on a dangerous space mission, only to come out with all of them being a little different than they were going in. “Stepping into something like Game of Thrones and then going into the early days of Netflix with Narcos and then Star Wars and the world of video games with The Last of Us, each time I’ve felt like I couldn’t top how intimidating the last one was.”