
24/07/2025
“When I started familiarising myself with the storyline, I realised that Marvel has always been about flawed, complex characters. They weren’t these perfect, holy superheroes,” explained Vanessa Kirby about what drew her to step out and into the world of MCU in The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Better known for parts in Pieces of a Woman and The Crown, the British actor has brought her beautiful ability to bring up the more raw human side to characters, and there is no better platform than these juggernaut films.
“In Fantastic Four, Sue was pregnant. We haven’t seen a pregnant superhero before and that’s so interesting. It’s a deeply female experience but also something that affects men with families,” she points out. Rather than sidelining femininity, Kirby leans into it. Her work continuously seeks to rebalance narratives – to bring good men into the female experience and women into roles of unfiltered power.
Read the full interview in the summer issue of GLASS - out now!
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