Fantastic Four‘s Julia Garner Teases Her Take on the Silver Surfer

Julia Garner (Wolf Man) recently sat down with Entertainment Weekly to give some insight on her take on the mysterious Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four: The First Steps. Like many fans with only casual knowledge of the comics and past films from Marvel and Fox, she assumed the Silver Surfer was a male character—but then admitted, “I was just like, ‘Okay, well, I’ll play anything.'” It helped that she was already a “big fan” of Fantastic Four director Matt Shakman. “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 [the film’s Silver Surfer is] actually Shalla-Bal and that whole thing.” Garner learned more about this version of the Silver Surfer after reading the script for the film, though she couldn’t reveal too much. “It’s going to be really interesting … it was described as, there’s this mystery about her, and there’s this sense of this ambiguous energy going ... Read full article.