Julia Garner didn’t pay a lot thoughts to all of the sexist backlash to her casting because the Silver Surfer in The Unbelievable 4: First Steps.
After Garner’s involvement within the new Marvel movie made headlines, followers claimed the Silver Surfer character needs to be male. “One other flop for Disney,” one fan wrote on-line, per the Day by day Mail. “Ehm, isn’t Silver Surfer a person? One other movie ruined,” mentioned one other.
However the Ozark alum wasn’t rattled. “Properly, you realize. I used to be like, ‘I’m simply gonna nonetheless do my job,” she mentioned in a BBC Information interview, trying into the digicam as she advised off the haters. “And in addition, it’s Shalla-Bal, so it’s completely different.”
As Garner famous, Shalla-Bal is a feminine character in Marvel comics, an empress of the world Zenn-La and an ill-fated lover of Silver Surfer alter-ego Norrin Radd. In Marvel’s Earth X sequence of comedian books, nevertheless, Shalla-Bal turns into the Surfer herself.
Garner beforehand advised Leisure Weekly she knew the “fundamentals of sure comedian ebook characters” earlier than signing on to the Unbelievable 4 undertaking, which is why she was “in disbelief” when she acquired the decision to play the Silver Surfer.
“I knew who the Silver Surfer was, and I acquired to know the Silver Surfer extra after I signed on to the undertaking,” she mentioned. “I actually dived in. I learn lots of the Unbelievable 4 and Silver Surfer comics earlier than beginning the undertaking, and I knew that this Unbelievable 4 was going to be advised in a really completely different approach than even the opposite films.
And the three-time Emmy winner was solely aware of the Norrin Radd model of the Surfer. “I used to be confused as a result of I used to be like, ‘Wait, isn’t the Silver Surfer a person?’” she recalled. “I used to be identical to, ‘Okay, effectively, I’ll play something.’ [Laughs] I used to be a really large fan of [director Matt Shakman], so there was already, in my thoughts, like, ‘I ought to in all probability meet with Matt Shakman as a result of he’s a really good director and I like his work.’ After which he was explaining to me that it’s truly Shalla-Bal and that entire factor.”
The Unbelievable 4: First Steps, In Theaters, Friday, July 25