Paul Walter Hauser had trouble keeping his role in “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” a secret.
In a recent interview with GQ, the Golden Globe winner, who plays Mole Man in the MCU blockbuster, said he wasn’t as “zip-lipped” as he could’ve been about his part.
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“For the most part I was zip-lipped, and everybody understands at this point,” Hauser said. “They all know if you do ‘Star Wars,’ or Marvel, you can’t talk about it. But if I’m being honest—and I pride myself on my honesty nowadays—I probably told 70 or 80 random people, be it family members or fans. I’m not gonna lie and say I told literally no one. I told several dozen people.”
He continued, “But at the same time, they weren’t 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’re like, ‘Are you Mole Man?’ I would say something like, ‘I don’t know man, I hear there is a mole…’ And wink at them, just to get them excited.”
Although outwardly, Marvel appears to do everything they can to hush spoilers, Hauser said he interprets it as “kind of like jaywalking,” adding it’s not the end of the world for the MCU if he gives a few people behind-the-scenes details.
“It’s like, you can get [arrested] for that, but it’s like, hopefully they’re catching the bad guys,” Hauser said. “And when I look at Kevin Feige and the Marvel folks, I go, I think they’re probably busy with some other stuff. They’re probably not gonna chase me down and scalp me, or shoot a little [dart] into my neck.”
In “Fantastic Four,” Hauser appears alongside Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Joseph Quinn and Ralph Ineson. The MCU epic follows the titular super groups as they attempt to defend Earth from the gargantuan planet-eating entity known as Galactus.
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