Vanessa Kirby explains playing pregnant superhero in ‘Fantastic Four’

English actress Vanessa Kirby, who is playing Sue Storm, also known as The Invisible Woman in Fantastic Four: First Steps, said playing a pregnant superhero was a “great honour.”

The actress is also expecting her first child and debuted her baby bump at the premiere of the MCU movie.

Kirby spoke to the PA news agency, saying she believes it's “revolutionary” to have a mother at the centre of Marvel’s first family.

“When I first started talking about Sue, I was already so passionate about her,” she told the agency. “It was so exciting to me, this idea of having a pregnant superhero, a working mother. Even in the shooting of it, it was surreal because I had this pregnancy bump, but I was so included in everything.”

The BAFTA-winning actress said playing that role was “daunting,” and she was honoured to take it on.

“I know that I’m just one of many that’s kind of got to know her over the years,” Kirby said about her character Sue.

Furthermore, the actress added that the blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary in the film really touched her.

“This was such a combination of domesticity — where Reed was smelling Sue’s socks,” she said, “or Sue was brushing her teeth — and then we’d be in the intergalactic, epic cosmos. That, in a way, was the experience we had.”

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