nothing against Pedro Pascal, I love him, but for me, Ioan Gruffudd will always be the iconic, most perfect Reed Richards and no one else can play him like Ioan does.
that being said, it would be super great to see Ioan as Reed again where he teamed up with Pedro’s Reed and John Krasinski’s Reed (so we had 3 Reed Richards variants from different timelines).
also credit to @doseofthreecuties , thank you for putting these photos together. our Reed Richards ♡
i had 0 plans to talk about it since i do not want to start shit but it's absolutely driving me insane to see poc actors get trampled for having a large body of work while white actors (literally the chris quartet, although pratt has been/deserves to be dragged) are routinely applauded.
seeing the internet turn on pedro after doing nothing but praising him for his work in tlou is not only a could-exclusively-happen-on-twitter phenomenon but is also proof that it's acceptable to let a poc be cast as a white man once and only once. there was an uproar when he was going to be joel, and he knocked it out of the fucking park. there's an uproar now due to his casting as reed richards, yet he hasn't given anyone a reason to critique his acting when he's worked so hard and executed his characters so beautifully and intimately.
even with rumors of him being in talks for materialists (the A24 romcom) opposite chris evans, the comments in response were almost entirely targeting pedro for 'being in everything' while evans has been in ~49 films. nobody is tired of him yet, are they? why is this energy solely ever directed at pocs?
Imagine if, you will, a tiny mousegirl sleeping atop the warm belly of a dragongirl. She is small and, the dragongirl dares not risk lose her amidst the riches and finery of her hoard. Thus, the dragongirl always keeps the mousegirl, her greatest treasure of all, close to her at night.