Fantastic Four Actor Didn’t Read The Comics But Had “Sexual Visions” Of Elfquest
Prior to being cast as Ben Grimm/The Thing in the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot, Ebon Moss-Bachrach had another brush with Marvel as David Lieberman/Micro in the first season of The Punisher. Now, as one of the stars of FX and Hulu’s The Bear, Moss-Bachrach has confessed that he was never really into Fantastic Four comics as a kid… and he was perhaps a little too into an indie fantasy comic.
“I was a comic book fan, but the comic books I read when I was a kid were more like the cheaper kind of ones I could get from the five-cent bin,” explained Moss-Bachrach during an interview with Variety. “I liked Archie, some Richie Rich. I really liked Groo. I liked Elfquest a lot. I think some of my earliest sexual visions were Elfquest.”
Since Moss-Bachrach was born in 1977, his prime comic book reading years probably came in the ’80s when Elfquest and Groo the Wanderer were both published by Marvel’s Epic imprint. Still, it is somewhat surprising that he’s essentially admitting to having sexual fantasies about the passion project of Wendy and Richard Pini.