Julia Garner on 'Fantastic Four,' 'Weapons' & Her Biggest Year Yet

Julia Garner on 'Fantastic Four,' 'Weapons' & Her Biggest Year Yet

If Julia Garner could be blessed with one superpower, she would choose invisibility. “I like to hide,” says the self-described “outgoing introvert” on a Zoom call from London. “I recharge by being by myself.” The 31-year-old arrived in the British capital the day before, but she’s already completed back-to-back press days for the premiere of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, getting fitted into a shimmering Thom Browne gown hours before walking t…

Review: ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ wows with iconic flair

There’s an old idiom that says, “Third time’s the charm.” This appears to be the case for Marvel Studios’ recent foray into adapting Marvel’s first family onto the big screen. The early 2000s and the spectacular failure of the 2015 reboot had the Fantastic Four on pause until Disney bought 20th Century Fox in 2019, and the rights were reverted to the same studio that made “Iron Man” and “The Avengers” commercial and critical successes. The new e…

The New Fantastic Four Offers Representation, But Not Liberation?

In Fantastic Four (2025), Marvel introduces a gender-swapped Silver Surfer, a post racial Times Square, and what appears on the surface to be a progressive reboot. But for all its cosmic scale and aesthetic updates, the film is a quiet reaffirmation of a very old formula: women exist to choose between the world and their children, and in doing so, die for both. Directed by Matt Shakman and written by Josh Friedman, Eric Pearson, and Jeff Kaplan,…