Jessica Alba has some advice for Fantastic Four’s new Sue Storm actor Vanessa Kirby

“Just have fun”

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Marvel’s newThe Fantastic Fourstars have been unveiled, with Vanessa Kirby playing the only female in the troop, Sue Storm, and past actor Jessica Alba has some heartfelt advice for her.

“I think just have fun. The fans are so amazing,” Alba toldCollider. “It was probably one of the best times of my life, going around the world and meeting all of the people that just love The Fantastic Four and love these comic books and can relate to these stories. That, to me, and to be able to meet so many different people that you can touch and bring joy to them, I would say that’s first and foremost for anyone who gets the honor of playing one of these awesome characters. So I’d tell her to just have fun and soak in the moments.”

Alba notably played Storm AKA The Invisible Woman in the 2005 movieFantastic Fourand its sequelFantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and even voiced the hero in a later video game. Aside from Alba, the first flick starred Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards AKA Mr Fantatsic, Chris Evans as Jonny Storm AKA the Human Torch, and Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm AKA The Thing.

Evans recently reprised his role as Jonny Stormin the recent MCU smash hitDeadpool and Wolverine, where he approaches the Merc and his clawed friend in The Void. At first, we expect Evans to be playing his better-known Marvel character Captain America, but as he shouts “Flame-on!” we realize in a massive twist he is actually playing Storm.

Now almost 20 years later, the upcoming reboot,officially titled The Fantastic Four: The First Steps, we get a brand new first family with Kirby as Storm alongside Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm, and Joseph Quinn as Jonny Storm. Although this is Kirby’s first Marvel movie, she is best known for starring in major pictures such as Ridley Scott’sNapoleon, alongside Tom Cruise inMission: Impossible - FalloutandDead Reckoningand TV show The Crown.

Although no official plotline has been released, we do know that the movie, directed by WandaVision’s Matt Shakman, will be set in the ‘60s and will not be an origin story.

The cast also includes Ralph Ineson as Galactus, Julia Garner as the Silver Surfer, Paul Walter Hauser, Natasha Lyonne, and John Malkovich. Who knows, with Evans showing up in Deadpool 3, maybe Alba will pull a Multiverse of Madness and appear in the upcomingPhase 6movie. As we know, anything can happen with Marvel timelines these days.

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps releases in theaters on July 25, 2025. Fantastic Four 2005 is available to stream onDisneyPlus. For more, check out our guide on how to watchMarvel movies in order, or keep up to date withupcoming MCU movies and TV showsheading your way in 2024 and beyond.

I am an Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, covering TV and film for SFX and Total Film online. I have a Bachelors Degree in Media Production and Journalism and a Masters in Fashion Journalism from UAL. In the past I have written for local UK and US newspaper outlets such as the Portland Tribune and York Mix and worked in communications, before focusing on film and entertainment writing. I am a HUGE horror fan and in 2022 I created my very own single issue feminist horror magazine.

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