Pedro Pascal flustered by question about Mr. Fantastic’s stretchable body parts

Sue Storm would be clutching her pearls.

Jimmy Kimmel flustered guest Pedro Pascal with a suggestive question about Reed Richards’ stretchable body parts on Monday’s episode of his late-night show. Pascal, on hand to promote The Last of Us and Fantastic Four without revealing any HBO or Marvel spoilers, did not see it coming — his mouth hanging agape after Kimmel posed the inquiry.

“In the trailer, we don’t see you stretch, which is Mr. Fantastic’s power. Do you know what’s in the next trailer? Will we see the stretching ability?” Kimmel asked.

“I don’t know,” a cautious Pascal said. “You see all the saliva like, evaporating in my throat? Now I’m nervous.”

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This prompted Kimmel to try another approach: “Let me ask you this. Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic, has the power to stretch. He can stretch his ears if he wants; he can grow another head. I was wondering if all of Mr. Fantastic’s body parts stretch, and I wonder if you know the answer to that question, and did you even ask that question?”

Collecting himself in between laughs and glances out into the audience, Pascal offered: “Everything has to stretch.”

Kimmel then displayed a suggestive comic strip panel of Reed and his wife, Susan Storm, in bed, where the latter remarks on her husband’s “wonderful set of abilities” he acquired from cosmic rays. “Meaning he’s an incredible conversationalist in bed,” Pascal quipped.

A similar joke about Reed Richards’ anatomy is featured in 2005’s Fantastic Four starring Ioan Gruffudd in the role of Mr. Fantastic. “Is it true what they say about him, that he can expand any part of his anatomy?” a TV reporter asks Chris Evans’ Human Torch in the scene to ooohs and aaahs, to which he responds, “Well, I’ve always found him to be a little limp.”

Pascal stars opposite Vanessa Kirby (as Susan Storm/The Invisible Woman), Joseph Quinn (Johnny Storm/Human Torch), and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Ben Grimm/The Thing) in director Matt Shakman’s highly anticipated The Fantastic Four: First Steps, in theaters July 25.

He told Kimmel he was pretty good with keeping secrets when it comes to his projects, but conceded that he tends to tell his Uber driver “just about anything.” For more insights about his projects and “insane” viral coffee order, watch Pascal’s interview above.