Julia Garner teases her Fantastic Four Silver Surfer role: "It's gonna be really shiny"

Julia Garner playfully comments on Fantastic Four casting, joking that Silver Surfer "is gonna be really shiny."

Julia Garner, the Emmy-winning actress from Ozark and Inventing Anna will portray the Silver Surfer in Marvel’s upcoming film. In one of her first comments about the role, she playfully speculated about what she might look like in character. 

During an interview with Entertainment Weekly for the film Wolf Man, "I can't really speak a lot about that project," Garner says. "All I can just say is that I'm very lucky to have a part in that project, and the Fantastic Four are fantastic. They are so amazing in this. I'm very excited for people to see them. I'm assuming that this Silver Surfer is gonna be really shiny like in the other previous ones and the comic books. So, yeah, that's all I'm gonna say." 

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Garner will star alongside Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/Human Torch, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing, and Ralph Ineson as Galactus. She also confirmed that this is the first time Marvel has approached her for a role in their expanding cinematic universe.

Fantastic Four: First Steps will not revisit the origin story of "Marvel's First Family," as it has already been explored on screen multiple times. Set in a retro-futuristic world influenced by the 1960s, the film follows the heroes as they protect Earth from the world-eating space god Galactus and his herald, the Silver Surfer.

"One of the things we decided early on was not to do an origin story," Shakman had remarked in a previous interview with EW. "One of the ways we're making it our own thing is we're not telling the story of them going up and being changed and starting our story [there]. There's a lot of well-known narrative that leads into that moment, right? And then you're making up your new story starting basically at the end of the first act, and we thought, 'Well, let's just start this thing off on a completely new foot.' So we are beginning after that."

The film, directed by Matt Shakman, who has previously directed the show WandaVision, is set to release on July 25 of of this year.