{"id":395002,"date":"2026-01-28T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395002\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:57:08","slug":"all-the-celebrities-who-are-now-mcu-canon-thanks-to-wonder-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395002\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Celebrities Who Are Now MCU Canon Thanks to Wonder Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After offering him a role in his new action movie \u2013 the hilariously titled Cash Grab \u2013 Gad continues to poke fun at himself throughout the episode, and eventually succumbs to an unknown fate, leading a news reporter to say the never-before-spoken \u201cWhere is Josh Gad? The world wants to know.\u201d If Gad has ever annoyed you, onscreen or otherwise, he may just have made up for it by roasting himself a little here.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tJoin our mailing list<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter__desc has-sm-font-size\">Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>David Cronenberg<\/p>\n<p>Wonder Man director Von Kovak extols the virtues of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/best-horror-movie-remakes-ranked\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Cronenberg\u2019s spin on The Fly<\/a> when he\u2019s interviewed about his own upcoming remake, saying that the Canadian body-horror genre maestro grounded his take in science and \u201cdiscovered new, unthinkable horrors\u201d that ultimately made the movie a worthy redo. And he\u2019s right to say it!<\/p>\n<p>Leonardo DiCaprio &amp; The Manning Brothers<\/p>\n<p>Leonardo DiCaprio might never want to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/timothee-chalamet-leonardo-dicaprio-career-advice-drugs-superhero-movies-1235373521\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">do a superhero movie<\/a>, Marvel or otherwise, but he\u2019s now definitely been name-checked in a superhero TV series thanks to Simon Williams, whose agent Janelle (X Mayo) tries to dissuade him from auditioning for the lead of Wonder Man because \u201cthey\u2019re already talking to Leo.\u201d Simon\u2019s heard they\u2019re looking for someone different, and tries to convince Janelle that he could be the right actor for the role. She\u2019s a bit busy trying to sign football royalty, though, and is stuck playing \u201chot potato\u201d with Eli Manning.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Gordon-Levitt &amp; Glenn Howerton<\/p>\n<p>Hovering New York Times reporter Kathy Friedman (Lauren Weedman) wants to do a profile of Simon, which he doubts will paint him in a good light. Though Trevor thinks it\u2019s a good idea, Simon reads him some negative snippets from Kathy\u2019s previous celebrity profiles. One mentions an ominous \u201cpigeon incident\u201d from Joseph Gordon-Levitt\u2019s childhood, and fearing a similar character assassination to the one Kathy wrote on the (500) Days of Summer actor or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-character-most-losses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s Always Sunny\u2026<\/a> star Glenn Howerton (\u201cone of the most charming dudes out there!\u201d), Simon begins to worry that Kathy will find out a little too much about him.<\/p>\n<p>However, it\u2019s Trevor that ultimately gets the Joseph Gordon-Levitt treatment, and he\u2019s soon storming out on Kathy, yelling \u201cI never murdered any bloody pigeons!\u201d in one of the show\u2019s finest moments.<\/p>\n<p>John Gielgud<\/p>\n<p>Trevor says that legendary English actor and theatre director John Gielgud used to make Trevor whip him across his \u201cbare arse\u201d with a belt every night before curtain up, until \u201cthings got weird.\u201d We never find out more. A travesty, but the mind boggles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After offering him a role in his new action movie \u2013 the hilariously titled Cash Grab \u2013 Gad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-395002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}