Ebon Moss-Bachrach On Team Effort To Realize Ben Grimm In Fantastic Four: First Steps

In a recent interview actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach praises a team effort to realize Ben Grimm on screen for The Fantastic Four: First Steps. The actor spoke with EW as part of their coverage of the upcoming big Marvel Summer film.

“I’ve never collaborated with so many people — literally hundreds of people, between the animators and the designers. It was a real team effort. Even though a lot of it is motion-capture and created in animation, all of those costume pieces were built. We always had a suit on set that was the actual proportions so we could see how it would all fit.”

“It was an ongoing and never-ending kind of dialogue between me and the designers and the VFX people. It was a unique experience. I felt like the brain: I would make creative choices, and then we’d circle back, and they’d make it happen.”

“I was deeply, deeply impressed by the seriousness and the dedication that all the designers had to make this man compelling and human and inhuman all at the same time.”

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As for getting into the character of Ben himself?

“Jack Kirby wrote this character [of Ben Grimm] as a bit of an homage to his father, and to the streets that he grew up on. I’m a New Yorker, and I’ve spent a lot of time on Essex Street, on Delancey, on Clinton.”

“So it does feel like home to me, and the production did a beautiful job recreating that. It was so cool to walk down and see the hat seller and the fish seller. I was shocked that we were outside of London because it fully felt like the Lower East Side.”

So far, I’d say this version is the best looking live-action ben Grimm to date. Though, I’ll admit it’s not a high bar. If it was up to me, I’d have made Ben slightly larger when he’s The Thing, almost, but not quite Hulk size. Though, it’s a minor gripe at this point, as Ben looks like Ben, and that’s a plus.

What do you think of his comments as Ebon Moss-Bachrach praises the team effort required to realize Ben Grimm on screen for The Fantastic Four: First Steps? Thoughts below as always.

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