But the sequence as seen on the big screen and the way it was originally shot are completely different. During one of the emotional climaxes in Rise of the Silver Surfer, Alba's character Sue is crying as she dies in her husband Reed Richards' (Ioan Gruffudd) arms. She reportedly had a number of "experiences where she was told to read the words on the page" in the exact way they were written that made her lose confidence in herself and her acting abilities (via Access ). This confession of not having the courage to stand her ground and offer her own take on a bit of dialogue or the way a scene should be performed ties into Alba's experience on Rise of the Silver Surfer. "Even when actors would go off book, I didn't know what to say."
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It's not that Alba thinks scripts don't matter - it's that she personally feels she doesn't know how to not be tied to a script and to improvise when needed, which she apparently considers the mark of a good actor. "Basically, I was saying that I didn't have the courage and didn't really understand how to bring my own thing to the table and I would never veer away from the script, ever, no matter what," Alba said (via CinemaBlend ).
Alba had such an unsavory time filming Rise of the Silver Surfer that one particularly difficult scene in particular nearly made her say goodbye to acting for good.Īccording to Alba, that quote was taken out of context, as she explained during a press event for 2010's Little Fockers. Indeed, Jessica Alba – who played Susan Storm, aka the Invisible Woman - didn't exactly get along with director Tim Story. Part of what's going to make that happen is having the actors and director work well together, which was sadly not the case for Rise of the Silver Surfer. With another Fantastic Four reboot on the way, fans can only cross their fingers in the hopes that yet another film starring Marvel's First Family doesn't go the way of the Negative Zone. 2007's Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer didn't do much to improve upon its predecessor, and 2015's reboot Fantastic Four unfortunately followed that same downward trend. The Fantastic Four franchise itself, however, never experienced that same turnaround. After all, the season where the Marvel Cinematic Universe would truly hit its stride was only few years away, so it wouldn't be long before things turned around for the better.
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It can be good to look back and reflect on what went wrong, or to view the movie as a stepping stone for what was to come. 2005's Fantastic Four may not be a film Marvel fans - or superhero fans in general - want to remember, but it exists whether they like it or not.