AceShowbiz - The new "Fantastic Four" cast have started bonding via group chat. Ebon Moss Bachrach revealed he and co-stars Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, and Vanessa Kirby are already getting to know each other before they start shooting the movie.

"Pedro started a group text a couple days ago. I have his number, so it says Pedro Pascal, and then there's two +44 [the U.K. country code] numbers. I don't know which one's Vanessa and which one is Joseph," he told chat show host Jimmy Kimmel.

"But everybody said something! Everyone's put a little image or a sticker or a gif or something out there, so people are invested, I guess? No one's being coy! Everyone showed up. It's nice, it's nice."

Ebon, 46, will play Ben Grimm/The Thing, Pedro is set to portray Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic with Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch.

"The Bear" star also revealed how he first heard he had landed a part in the Marvel movie. He said, "I got a call from my agent - and I wasn't thinking about work at all because writers were striking and then actors were probably going to strike - and he said, 'Yeah, they asked you to play The Thing.' "

"And I remember, because I was right on Fifth Avenue and 21st Street [in New York City], and I was so shocked, and I was walking, and the next thing I was right in front of Astor Wines. So, I went in and bought a bunch of mezcal."