The new Fantastic Four movie was pretty fantastic. I’ll do a review on it, which it deserves later. However, for now, we must discuss the promotional activities taking place in Hollywood, so that people can understand how they are manipulated by mass PR culture, which is currently in transition and at the forefront of a rebellion. Hollywood is distancing itself from woke culture, yet still trying to fulfill its former commitment to it, which lies at the heart of a fascinating problem that Hollywood has with leading men. They do not have people like Mel Gibson, Bruce Willis, and Clint Eastwood to drive box office numbers because they went woke a long time ago and have seen value into the Hollywood product decline ever since. So they need a leading man, but it can’t be a white man from America, as is traditionally the case. So Pedro Pascal as a Latino man kind of gives them that and they have been trying to milk him for all they can. I think he was pretty good in the Star Wars television show, The Mandalorian. And he’s been in other things since the success of that show launched him into fame. But, he’s not quite the package that PR firms would like him to be. He’s missing some things that normal “sexy” men usually have. Hollywood would love Pedro to be the next Harrison Ford. But in a kind of woke way, so it’s interesting to watch how the press handles him. And that has certainly been the case, as Pedro Pascal has been doing press for The Fantastic Four alongside his co-star in the film, Vanessa Kirby.
You might have heard about how affectionate Kirby and Pascal have been with each other during interviews. And I think much of it is natural. As much as actors want to say “it’s just acting,” the truth is that actors fall in love with each other all the time. Case in point, the recent discussion about Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson from The Naked Gun set, where they were spotted kissing at the movie premiere. For years now, we have been told by Hollywood that men could be women, and women, men. And that romance was overrated, and even showing romantic scenes in movies was a downward trend, because behind all this was a very anti-family agenda. And it has cost Hollywood a lot, and continues to do so, because movie fans like romance and seeing the people they watch in movies like each other. It has been quite interesting to see how Vanessa Kirby has been playing up her role in promoting Pedro Pascal as a romantic figure that women can’t keep their hands off. Because Pedro is safe, because he’s not a white male, Hollywood thinks it’s OK to promote him as the new sexiest man, because it still checks off their woke box within the culture itself. I believe there is some genuine affection between Kirby and Pascal, but with all the romantic touching that they have been doing, with her pregnant with another man’s baby and Pedro dating someone else, they are trying to start rumors of an affair so that people believe more in their film’s character’s relationship, and this is a new strategy for Hollywood, as they are trying to repair their anti-family, anti-romance reputation with a public that has decided to move on without them. Despite these efforts by Kirby and Pascal, The Fantastic Four has been pretty flat at the box office. Not because it’s a bad movie, but because the public has lost faith in Disney as a film producer.
I don’t think actors are ever really actors, and I’ve known quite a few very well. I’ve shared a trailer on movie sets with a few and can report that they are very human people behind the PR stunts. And I was personally invited to the home of Jennie Garth from Beverly Hills 90210 and her husband at the time, Peter Facinelli who was doing the Twilight movies then, and it’s a tough life to essentially be a 24/7 PR relations billboard. The pressure that is put on relationships is crushing, and I don’t think any actor in that business ever really figures it out. I believe Vanessa Kirby loves the guy she’s engaged to the best she can. And I think Pedro Pascal loves everyone in a kind of metro sexual way. But the MAGA loving public doesn’t like the woke stuff so there is no real way to dress it up. My reference to Jennie Garth essentially is to point out that I think the PR people behind The Fantastic Four, and the agents involved have told these two to act in the press as they would in the movie, and if that means acting like they are sleeping together to get the public excited to see them in a film together, then do it. Usually, actors are told to refrain from that kind of public affection. But with Hollywood out of ideas and trying to win back a jaded public, they are trying everything. And one thing that actors do is act. It’s hard to tell when they are sincere about anything, including things to themselves. They are often not very grounded in reality because they always serve someone’s PR machine.
To explain it away, as people have been talking about the possible reality that Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby are cheating on their significant others with each other, it has been leaked to the press that Vanessa knows Pedro so well that she knows he suffers from anxiety and that he requires physical contact to maintain himself. Well, that sounds like a cheesy pickup line to me, but it’s not very sexy. So either way all this goes, it’s not the kind of appeal that audiences are looking for. Right now, The Fantastic Four will be lucky to break even at the box office for a whole lot of reasons that Disney is unsure how to deal with. It will take a lot more than rumors of affairs to win people over to their leading actors and actresses. And when it comes to whether an actress would continue to act long after the cameras are off, well, of course, they would. And I’m sure with Vanessa Kirby, she is acting when it comes to playing Pedro Pascal up as the next, sexiest, leading man in Hollywood. I often feel sorry for actors because at the Hollywood level, the job never goes away. I saw in Jennie and Peter a genuine attempt to be a real family, but the cracks were certainly there in trying to balance a private life with the pressures of PR needs for their entertainment projects. People see romance between actors and want to believe it’s real. As a last-ditch effort to save themselves, PR specialists and their agents are advising their clients to show affection for their co-stars in public, thereby fueling speculation and promoting film sales. But what nobody has figured out is that what the public wants is authenticity, not more phony relationships. Instead of fixing the problem, Hollywood is making it worse. And woke is not going to work with the movie going public. Hollywood can’t have a leading man who is also woke. There are certain things that a sexy man is, and Hollywood won’t be able to define them for their use. They either provide a product that people want. Or they don’t. The market is, and has always been, in charge. Not the PR people.
Rich Hoffman
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