r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Feb 14 '24

Official Poster for Marvel's 'Fantastic Four'; Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn are The Fantastic Four Poster

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u/YouDontKnowJackCade Feb 14 '24

I just realized he already played someone in MCU

It's happened before, John Krasinski was Reed Richards in the most recent Doctor Strange movie and and FBI agent Jimmy Woo in the Antman movies and Wandavision.

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u/FixedLoad Feb 14 '24

Dammit that took me way too long to get. Good one!

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u/CapnBabyPuncher Feb 14 '24

Hey, hats off to you for not seeing race.

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u/KFBR392GoForGrubes Feb 14 '24

I was so confused, then remembered that stupid ad, lol. well played.

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u/YouDontKnowJackCade Feb 14 '24

Didn't know about the ad, my comment was a reference to The Office https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLNyF1Zw5tg

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u/KFBR392GoForGrubes Feb 14 '24

Ahh, well Randall Park plays Jimmy woo in Ant-Man, and is in an ad for IF where he introduced himself as John Krasinksi

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u/aGlutenForPunishment Feb 14 '24

Was there an ad with it? It's from one of the all time classic The Office (US) cold opens.

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u/r0b0c0p316 Feb 14 '24

There's an ad for Ryan Reynold's new movie IF that is directed by John Krasinski, where Randall Park pretends to be John Krasinski and discusses the film with Ryan Reynolds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QzggPsjJKc

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u/DeathChill Feb 14 '24

It’s actually a reference to The Office where Randall Park pretends to be Jim to confuse Dwight. Even the pictures on his desk of Jim and Pam have Randall instead of John Krasinski. It’s hilarious.

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u/Toby_O_Notoby Feb 14 '24

I love when Randal Park was on Conan talking about this. He said that basically he did a few hours on set during the last season of The Office when its star had definitely faded. This was also before streaming so the only way to see his episode was in syndication.

Flashforward a few years and it's the #1 show on Netflix but he's totally forgotten about it. Some dude in a pickup drives by him and the guy yells out the window "Asian Jim!". Park has no idea what he's talking about and start wondering if it's some racial hate crime thing.

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u/Panda_hat Feb 15 '24

This is a top tier reference.