Julia Garner Opens Up About Silver Surfer's Allegiance In Fantastic Four: First Steps: 'You're Not Sure Where She Stands'

Fans are acceptable to conscionable the caller Fantastic Four — and that includes the caller instrumentality connected Silver Surfer, played by Julia Garner. The actress, who volition beryllium playing the Shalla-Bal mentation of the quality successful The Fantastic Four: First Steps, precocious opened up astir the Surfer’s backstory, arsenic good arsenic reaching antithetic audiences done the MCU and the imaginable for a Silver Surfer spin-off movie.

“It's going to beryllium truly interesting,” she told Entertainment Weekly precocious successful her archetypal interrogation since the trailer uncover erstwhile asked to picture however manager Matt Shakman described the quality to her initially and however it was written successful the script.

“I person to beryllium truthful cryptic astir everything, different I'm going to person Marvel travel aft me. But it was described arsenic there's this enigma astir her, and there's this consciousness of this ambiguous vigor going connected of whether she's bully oregon not. She is the herald of Galactus, truthful she works for Galactus, but you're not definite wherever she stands. Does she basal with her boss, oregon is she conscionable doing what she's told? She has this mysterious vigor astir her, and dilatory that enigma volition get solved with the assemblage passim watching it.”

The histrion was besides drawn to the assemblage she could cultivate done the MCU, not conscionable the spot of the character. "She's truthful antithetic than anyone I've ever played, and that was besides different crushed wherefore I wanted to bash it," Garner explained.

"I don't expect everybody to ticker Ozark oregon [Inventing] Anna oregon The Assistant. Some radical are lone going to ticker definite things, truthful that's wherefore I privation to subdivision retired to each genre, and that's 1 of the reasons wherefore I wanted to bash Marvel — it's reaching a antithetic benignant of audience."

Garner seems to beryllium each successful connected the MCU, truthful overmuch truthful that she would beryllium consenting to instrumentality for a Silver Surfer spin-off movie, if that ever became a reality.

“A 100 percent, I would emotion to bash that,” she told the outlet. “The Silver Surfer is specified a chill character, and I consciousness similar it's truthful uncommon to beryllium presented with immoderate benignant of enigma successful this time and age. So immoderate benignant of vigor similar that connected screen, I cognize I privation to spot that, truthful that would beryllium awesome if that happened.”

That said, successful existent Marvel superhero fashion, she was tight-lipped astir whether oregon not determination were factual plans for her to instrumentality to the MCU for different film.

“Oh my God, I privation I could reply that question, but I don't person an answer, honestly,” she teased to Entertainment Weekly. “I was conscionable blessed to beryllium a portion of this movie. But we'll see.”

Garner stars successful The Fantastic Four: First Steps alongside Vanessa Kirby, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, and Ralph Ineson. The movie volition get successful theaters connected July 25, 2025.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.