The Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) warns of the coming Galactus in "The Fantastic Four: First Steps," starring Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby.

First Steps has arrived and it shows more of Marvel's First Family doing battle with Galactus. The Silver Surfer, meanwhile, ...

Julia Garner has responded to the backlash she's faced for playing the Silver Surfer in The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

Back then, the character was portrayed as a male, with actor Doug Jones playing it on the screen and Laurence Fishburne voicing it. And as Marvel has now changed Silver Surfer into a female in the new ...

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

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Marvel Studios planning Silver Surfer spinoff after The Fantastic Four. Uncertainty if fans will care about Silver Surfer ...

Some fans took issue with the fact that Garner was stepping into the role of Silver Surfer, which many thought should be played by a man.

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

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

Julia plays a different version of the character, named Shalla-Bal, a female Silver Surfer, as per the Marvel Comics.