Julia Garner talks about Silver Surfer role in new 'Fantastic Four' film
Julia Garner is opening up about her upcoming role in "Fantastic Four: First Steps."
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actress talked about her role as Silver Surfer and said, "She's so different than anyone I've ever played."
"I don't expect everybody to watch 'Ozark' or '[Inventing] Anna' or 'The Assistant,'" she said. "Some people are only going to watch certain things, so that's why I want to branch out to every genre, and that's one of the reasons why I wanted to do Marvel -- it's reaching a different kind of audience."
Audiences got a first look at Garner as Silver Surfer when the trailer was released last week.
It features Garner gliding above the city on her floating surfboard.
Before the film, the Emmy Award-winner said she familiarized herself with the "Fantastic Four" and "Silver Surfer" comics.
"I knew about some of the famous comic book characters, some of them I didn't know," she said. "So when I got presented with this opportunity, I was like, 'Wait, what? Me?' Yeah, I was in disbelief, almost because it was so cool."
"I knew that this Fantastic Four was going to be told in a very different way than even the other movies," she added.
Garner said that director Matt Shakman couldn't say much about the character before she took on the role, but described Silver Surfer to her as having a "mystery about her."
"There's this sense of this ambiguous energy going on of whether she's good or not," she said. "She is the herald of Galactus so she works for Galactus, but you're not sure where she stands. Does she stand with her boss, or is she just doing what she's told? She has this mysterious energy about her, and slowly that mystery will get solved with the audience throughout watching it."
When asked if she would be interested in doing a Silver Surfer spinoff movie, Garner said, "A hundred percent."
"I would love to do that," she said. "The Silver Surfer is such a cool character, and I feel like it's so rare to be presented with any sort of mystery in this day and age. So any kind of energy like that on screen, I know I want to see that, so that would be awesome if that happened."
"Fantastic Four: First Steps" follows the Fantastic Four as they are "forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond," according to its official synopsis.
"They must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer," the synopsis continues. "And if Galactus' plan to devour the entire planet and everyone on it weren't bad enough, it suddenly gets very personal."
Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach star as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm/Human Torch and Ben Grimm/The Thing, respectively.
Ralph Ineson, Paul Walter Hauser, Natasha Lyonne, Sarah Niles and John Malkovich also star in the film.
"The Fantastic Four: First Steps" hits theaters July 25.
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