Vanessa Kirby is reflecting on her Fantastic Four character as she prepares for motherhood.
In an interview with PEOPLE, Kirby, 37, says she admires the journey her character Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman goes on throughout The Fantastic Four: The First Steps. The Oscar-nominated actress revealed she is pregnant in May with her first baby.
“Sue was never sat down. She was never huffing and puffing about it,” Kirby says of her character’s pregnancy, which would be something to celebrate if it weren’t for the fact supersized villain Galactus is on his way to devour Earth.
In the new Fantastic Four movie, Kirby is joined by Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing.
Set in a retro-futuristic 1960s, the foursome have already begun working as a superhero team after receiving superpowers following a mission to space. They are soon confronted with the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) and her boss, a planet-eating god named Galactus, who threatens to destroy the Fantastic Four’s Earth.
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Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Vanessa Kirby, Pedro Pascal and Joseph Quinn in ‘The Fantastic Four: The First Steps.’
“It didn’t define who she was,” Kirby says of her Marvel character. “She was absolutely a mother, and of course, in the comics, that’s so definitively her. But she’s also been a team member that defends, that goes up against great threats.”
“I literally had the lived experience of somebody who was doing this incredibly sacred thing and fulfilling what she needed to do at the same time as a woman and a team member, and that changed me,” Kirby adds.
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Pedro Pascal with Vanessa Kirby in ‘The Fantastic Four: The First Steps.’
Kirby is currently dating retired lacrosse player Paul Rabil. The two went public with their relationship on Instagram in November 2023.
The Fantastic Four: The First Steps is in theaters Thursday, July 24.
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