Julia Garner will appear as Silver Surfer in The Fantastic Four: First Steps. It will be her debut in the Marvel franchise.
However, the actress said she had a reason to play a character in a superhero film.
In an interview with EW, the Emmy winner said, “She’s so different than anyone I’ve ever played, and that was also another reason why I wanted to do it.”
Julia pointed to her hit shows, “I don’t expect everybody to watch Ozark or [Inventing] Anna or The Assistant. 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.”
Elsewhere in the interview, the 31-year-old said she had basic knowledge about Marvel before signing up for the role.
“I knew the basics of certain comic book characters, [and that] there was the Marvel world and the DC world, and they’re very different. I knew about some of the famous comic book characters, some of them I didn’t know,” the New York native said.
When the offer came, the actress recalled her reaction was of disbelief. “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.”
She continued, “I knew who the Silver Surfer was, and I got to know the Silver Surfer more when I signed on to the project. 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,” Julia concluded.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps will be out on July 25.
