{"id":948591,"date":"2026-11-01T09:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T09:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/948591\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T09:48:11","slug":"robert-downey-jr-pedro-pascal-swap-mcu-roles-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/948591\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr. &#038; Pedro Pascal Swap MCU Roles For Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith less than two months left on the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/avengers-doomsday\/\" id=\"auto-tag_avengers-doomsday\" data-tag=\"avengers-doomsday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avengers: Doomsday<\/a> clock, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/robert-downey-jr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_robert-downey-jr\" data-tag=\"robert-downey-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Downey Jr.<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/pedro-pascal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pedro-pascal\" data-tag=\"pedro-pascal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro Pascal<\/a> swapped sides for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/halloween\/\" id=\"auto-tag_halloween\" data-tag=\"halloween\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Halloween<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe pair traded off their MCU roles in a paired costume, with Downey dressing as Pascal\u2019s character Mr. Fantastic and Pascal as Downey\u2019s Dr. Doom, ahead of the movie\u2019s Dec. 18 premiere in theaters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cVictor. Richard. Costume swap!\u201d Downey captioned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DfL1wYpByqM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">video<\/a> on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing the events of last year\u2019s The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Avengers: Doomsday sees the multiverse collapse, forcing heroes from multiple Earths to unite against Doctor Doom (Downey).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlso returning are Pascal as Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, Joseph Quinn as Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as The Thing after making their MCU debut in First Steps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAdditionally, the cast includes Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Anthony Mackie as Captain America, Chris Evans as Steve Rogers, Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, Tenoch Huerta as Namor, Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, Letitia Wright as Black Panther, Kelsey Grammer as Beast, Danny Ramirez as Falcon, Winston Duke as M\u2019Baku, Tom Hiddleton as Loki, Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Ian McKellen as Magneto, Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, James Marsden Cyclops, Channing Tatum Gambit and more.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With less than two months left on the Avengers: Doomsday clock, Robert Downey Jr. and Pedro Pascal swapped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,22160,134,54162,344,372,57974],"class_list":["post-948591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-entertainment","tag-halloween","tag-movies","tag-pedro-pascal","tag-robert-downey-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}