Fanboy Celebrities
 

Y'know, the other day I was thinking to myself, Chris Evans must be a fanboy. I mean, the guy played The Human Torch in the Fantastic Four movies, did the voice of Casey Jones in TMNT, he was in The Losers and Scott Pilgrim VS. The World, and now he's playing Captain America.

Now, either this all means he's a big comics fan, or that he's just one of those actors that gets offered all kinds of roles and he just chose those projects for a paycheck. But I mean, Samuel L. Jackson has confessed to being a comics fan, and Nicholas Cage not only got his screen name from Luke Cage but he also named his damn kid Kal-El (feel sorry for that poor kid, he's going to be tortured through school). So it's possible that Evans is a fanboy.

Any other celebrities you guys know that are big fanboys (or girls)?

I wouldn't say fanboy, but Ryan Reynolds is a huge Deadpool fan. He was even upset with the Wolverine movie. And when he was (still is technically) involved with the DP movie, he was overseeing the script stuff to ensure it wasnt going to end up like Wolverine did.

Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are both nerd fanboys, but of genre related things. Buddy comedies, comics, and video games. They dedicated an entire episode of Spaced to Resident Evil 2.

Wil Wheaton is a total fanboy and geek (especially when it comes to D&D *lol*).

I thought we were talking about celebrity fanboys?

Vin Diesel is a D&D geek as well.

They're not exactly huge celebrities, but comedians Patton Oswalt and Brian Posehn are both big comics fans. They've each written a couple of them. And there's a wonderful bit in the "Comedians of Comedy" documentary where both talk about the hobby that reveals their fanboy hearts. A pretty good docu in general, I thought.