{"id":58616,"date":"2025-08-11T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58616\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:55:08","slug":"paul-walter-hauser-blabbed-fantastic-four-role-to-80-random-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58616\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Walter Hauser Blabbed &#8216;Fantastic Four&#8217; Role To &#8217;80 Random People&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSPOILER: This post contains details about The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDespite the intense media training and spoiler deterrents <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/marvel-studios\/\">Marvel Studios<\/a> has been rumored to inflict on its stars, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paul-walter-hauser\/\">Paul Walter Hauser<\/a> played it fast and loose with his character reveal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Golden Globe winner, who makes his <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mcu\/\">MCU<\/a> antihero debut as Mole Man in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-fantastic-four-first-steps\/\">The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/a>, recently confessed that he wasn\u2019t as discreet as most of his <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/marvel\/\">Marvel<\/a> peers about the surprise role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cFor the most part I was zip-lipped, and everybody understands at this point. They all know if you do Star Wars, or Marvel, you can\u2019t talk about it,\u201d he explained to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/paul-walter-hauser-interview-fantastic-four-naked-gun\">GQ<\/a>. \u201cBut if I\u2019m being honest\u2014and I pride myself on my honesty nowadays\u2014I probably told 70 or 80 random people, be it family members or fans. I\u2019m not gonna lie and say I told literally no one. I told several dozen people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHauser continued, \u201cBut at the same time, they weren\u2019t blabbering it out, or giving it to news outlets. They were respectful, and excited, and what-have-you. But if a little kid comes up to me in a wheelchair with a comic book, and they\u2019re like, \u2018Are you Mole Man?\u2019 I would say something like, \u2018I don\u2019t know man, I hear there is a mole\u2026\u2019 And wink at them, just to get them excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/russo-brothers\/\">Russo Brothers<\/a> have said they\u2019re <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/03\/russo-brothers-combating-spoilers-avengers-doomsday-1236312089\/\">cracking down on spoilers<\/a> while filming <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/avengers-doomsday\/\">Avengers: Doomsday<\/a>, Hauser said he sees the strict MCU secrecy \u201ckind of like jaywalking,\u201d assuming they have bigger fish to fry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s like, you can get [arrested] for that, but it\u2019s like, hopefully they\u2019re catching the bad guys,\u201d added Hauser. \u201cAnd when I look at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kevin-feige\/\">Kevin Feige<\/a> and the Marvel folks, I go, I think they\u2019re probably busy with some other stuff. They\u2019re probably not gonna chase me down and scalp me, or shoot a little [dart] into my neck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNow playing in theaters, one of The Fantastic Four: First Steps\u2018 multiple surprises is the introduction of Hauser as Harvey Elder (aka Mole Man), a former enemy of the Fantastic Four and leader of Subterranea who ultimately joins forces with the titular team against Galactus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER: This post contains details about The Fantastic Four: First Steps Despite the intense media training and spoiler&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,5228,7468,2839,20228,5397,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-58616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-marvel-studios","tag-mcu","tag-movies","tag-paul-walter-hauser","tag-the-fantastic-four-first-steps","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58616","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=58616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}