Lucifer star Tom Ellis was one of the strongest contenders for the role of Reed Richards before Pedro Pascal got the part. In an interview, the actor revealed how he got close to starring in the MCU's The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which was released last July, but things didn't work out in the end.
"There was a select group of people that got asked to tape for Reed Richards," he said in a recent issue of Square Mile published earlier this year. "I had been waiting for the right thing, timing-wise and character-wise, to come along. And I remember looking at the photo of Richards in the comics and going, 'this could be the one.' We look quite similar."
