In a red-carpet interview with the BBC at the “First Steps” premiere in London, a reporter asked Garner about the response ...

The First Steps' Julia Garner and Ralph Ineson. The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Julia Garner and Ralph Ineson Talk Previous ...

The actress focused on her job rather than paying attention to the ridiculous criticism which tried to smirch a beloved ...

Garner also noted that she’s portraying Shalla-Bal, a female iteration of the Silver Surfer, and not Norrin Radd, the male ...

Julia Garner just shut down critics of her Silver Surfer casting with a single, subtle comic book reference, and she didn’t ...

Shalla-Bal, first seen in “The Silver Surfer” #1 in 1968, is the female counterpart to Norrin Radd, who was featured in ...

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Actress Julia Garner, who is set to play the role of Silver Surfer in the upcoming film 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps', ...

"I said, 'I'm just going to still do my job,'" she said of the backlash. The 2007 film featured Norrin Radd, the original ...

Shalla-Bal was the Zenn-Lavian royal heir and romantic partner of a brilliant scientist from the utopian planet of Zenn-La ...

Julia Garner opens up about the controversy related to her female Silver Surfer in Marvel Studios' upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps movie.

Also, as Garner pointed out, she’s playing Silver Surfer alter-ego Shalla-Bal in the new film, not Norrin Radd.