Julia Garner is aware of silver seems to be good on her.
The actress, 31, was lately requested about how she dealt with the backlash to her gender-swapped position because the Silver Surfer in “Fantastic Four: First Steps.”
“Oh, well, you know. I said, ‘I’m just going to still do my job,’” Garner instructed the BBC on the Marvel movie’s crimson carpet premiere in London on Thursday.
Garner additionally famous that she’s portraying Shalla-Bal, a feminine iteration of the Silver Surfer, and never Norrin Radd, the male model of the character who was performed Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne in 2007’s “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.”
“Also, it’s Shalla-Bal, so it’s different,” she defined.
Garner went on to acknowledge the Marvel fandom’s large hype for the movie, which comes out later this month.
“I was just happy that people are resonating with it, just like any other project,” she shared. “I’m grateful to be at this dance, to be completely honest with you.”
Garner’s co-stars embrace Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Unbelievable, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Lady, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Factor and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/Human Torch.
Whereas chatting with Leisure Tonight on the carpet, Garner reacted to her Silver Surfer voice going viral on the web and launching a brand new TikTok development.
“I was just acting and prepping,” the “Ozark” alum said. “To be honest, I don’t even have a TikTok, so my friends were sending me all these TikToks, and I couldn’t even open it. So I’m just happy people are liking it.”
Again in April, Garner opened up about her shock at studying she was taking part in Silver Surfer when she met with director Matt Shakman.
“I was confused because I was like, ‘Wait, isn’t the Silver Surfer a man?’” she recalled to Leisure Weekly. “I was just like, ‘Okay, well, I’ll play anything.’”
“I was a very big fan of Matt’s, so there was already, in my mind, like, ‘I should probably meet with Matt Shakman because he’s a very smart director and I love his work.’ And then he was explaining to me that it’s actually Shalla-Bal and that whole thing,’” the three-time Emmy winner added.
Garner additionally spoke about how she prepped for the position in her first superhero film.
“I knew who the Silver Surfer was, and I got to know the Silver Surfer more when I signed on to the project,” she shared. “I really dived in. I read a lot of the Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer comics before starting the project, and I knew that this ‘Fantastic Four’ was going to be told in a very different way than even the other movies.”
“Fantastic Four: First Steps” comes out in theaters July 25.
