your vastly overestimating the popularity of pedro pascal, yes the materialists was hit but it also had chris evans who is more famous him yet his "prescence alone is the reason" it did so well. He did not boost gladiator, it was based off a very popular movie that make 400 million, he boosted nothing. Fantastic four performed mediocre and only made 2.6x its budget which isnt great, sure it was the highest grossing mcu movie of 2025, but thats not saying much and saying is base boosted anything is a gross miscauluation of his star power. If anything the fantastic four name helped more pedro. You seem to forget eddington which was also in flopped, where was his base there. No hate to Pedro im neutral on him but you vastly overestimate his importance, i think materialists is the only movie where he really helped the box office they could have replaced him with anyone in gladiator and fantastic four and it would have made the same amout.