"Fantastic Four" star Miles Teller, who plays the brilliant Reed Richards, also known as Mr. Fantastic in the film is already enjoying the perks of playing a superhero prior to the release of the rebooted film by Josh Trank.
During his guest appearance on the "Late Night with Seth Meyers" show, he shared an instance he encountered not long ago in a customs line at a U.S. airport. Looking at the long line of people, Teller was already preparing himself to wait for over an hour, but a customs guard tapped him on the shoulder and asked him to follow.
Teller's initial reaction was to worry, since he might have done (or carried) something that would warrant suspicion from airport authorities. But luckily for him, that was not the case. He was taken to a kiosk and the security guard told the actor, "You really think Mr. Fantastic has to wait in line?"
The airport guard was reportedly fired after the incident, added Teller, which was really unfortunate.
In a different interview, Teller admitted that he was not a huge comic book fan while growing up, since he preferred playing video games. But when he landed the role of Mr. Fantastic, he did a lot of research on the character and found out that it was actually his father's favorite superhero.
The young actor described Richards as a genius who "knows the answers to questions we don't even know to ask yet." In the movie, he will be recruited by Dr. Franklin Storm to figure out dimensional travel, and when they finally attempt to do so, something goes terribly wrong and the four voyagers return to Earth with untold superpowers. For Richards, he gains the ability to stretch his body to various lengths and sizes.
Teller also said that the rebooted "Fantastic Four" is completely different from what fans are expecting, since their characters - Kate Mara's Sue Storm, Michael B. Jordan's Johnny Storm, and Jamie Bell's Ben Grimm - will be more "humanized."
"We're making it our own, we're taking a lot from the 'Ultimate Fantastic Four' but I think we're humanizing these characters in a way that's never been done," Teller told MovieFone in an interview.
When he saw the movie's trailer for the first time, Teller go really excited because it was the first time he saw everything piece together. "When I saw the sizzle trailer, that was the first I had seen of it. I saw that at the same time as everyone else, literally. I was excited about it," he said, "Because when you're shooting a movie you can kind of get a sense of the tone of it from the director and how they're directing it, but in terms of how you shoot it, the lighting and everything, you're not aware of it."
