{"id":40656,"date":"2025-07-27T08:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40656\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:02:12","slug":"natasha-lyonne-talks-flirting-with-the-thing-in-fantastic-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40656\/","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Lyonne talks flirting with the Thing in ‘Fantastic Four’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Natasha Lyonne<\/a> says flirting with Ben Grimm\/the Thing in Fantastic Four: The First Steps <\/a>was anything but a rocky experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The actress, who stars as the Thing\u2019s love interest Rachel Rozman in the Marvel<\/a> film, tells Entertainment Weekly that sparks were genuinely flying between her and Ebon Moss-Bachrach<\/a>\u2019s craggy character.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOh gosh. Really kinda wild,\u201d Lyonne confesses of flirting with the solid superhero while visiting Entertainment Weekly\u2019s video studio for The Bad Guys 2<\/a>. \u201cEbon and I have known each other for a long time, but, well, it\u2019s kinky. I\u2019ll be honest.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm\/The Thing, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm\/Invisible Woman, Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards\/Mister Fantastic and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm\/Human Torch in The Fantastic Four: First Steps.<\/p>\n

Courtesy of 20th Century Studios\/Marvel Studios<\/p>\n

She continues, “Yes. Super specific. But I just love him so much, I mean, he’s such a good actor. We’ve known each other for a very long time, too, so it was very special to be a part of that.”\n<\/p>\n

Want more movie news? Sign up for\u00a0Entertainment Weekly<\/a>‘s free newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more.\n<\/p>\n

Rachel, a schoolteacher, and Ben, a cosmically altered rockman, have their own mini meet-cute in The First Steps when she encounters him playing with one of her students. Despite the pair hitting it off, Ben keeps his distance from Rachel out of fear of being rejected, but ultimately seeks her out at a local synagogue in the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lyonne, however, insists that the pair isn’t that serious. “By the way, I’m also seeing four other rocks, you should know, at this time,” she teases. “I won’t name names.”\n<\/p>\n

But, before anyone gets any ideas, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson<\/a> is not one of them. “Not the Rock!” she quickly clarifies. “I’m so sorry, I just don’t want it to get tangled up.”\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

There may still be hope for Rachel and Ben’s blooming romance \u2014\u00a0after all, the Fantastic Four are set to appear in Avengers: Doomsday, and if First Steps taught us anything, it’s that the end of the world has a way of bringing people together.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Check out more of\u00a0EW’s coverage from San Diego Comic-Con 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Natasha Lyonne says flirting with Ben Grimm\/the Thing in Fantastic Four: The First Steps was anything but a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-40656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}