Vanessa Kirby has only just made her MCU debut as Sue Storm in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, but she’s already looking ahead to the future, and there’s one alter-ego she’s “dying” to play next.
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The story sees Kirby’s Invisible Woman, Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn), and Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) defend Earth-828 from the planet-eating villain Galactus (Ralph Ineson) and his sidekick, Silver Surfer (Julia Garner).
The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ mid-credits scene sets up Avengers: Doomsday, but there’s one Marvel character Kirby is hoping to see next.
Vanessa Kirby wants to play Sue Storm’s alter-ego Malice in the MCU
The actress has revealed that she’s gunning for Sue Storm’s evil alter-ego Malice to make an appearance in the MCU, telling Variety, “I’m dying to do Malice.”
Malice first appeared in the comics back in 1985’s Fantastic Four #280, when the villain Psycho-Man twisted Sue’s emotions and turned her into a sadistic version of herself. She nearly killed the rest of the Fantastic Four, but it’s Sue’s backstory that has Kirby convinced.
“She’s come from a really tough background. She lost her mother in a car crash. Her dad tried to save her mother. He couldn’t. He then spiraled, became an alcoholic, got locked up in prison for murdering a loan shark, and then died,” the star continued.
“Sue had to become a mother to Johnny. They were orphans. They had to fight for themselves. What I loved about her was that she chose a path that was inherently a positive one. She chose to keep her heart open and to stay warm.”
However, if Sue becomes corrupted, her powers could make her one of the most dangerous supervillains going, as proven by a deleted The Fantastic Four: First Steps scene.
“There was a line within a scene that isn’t in it anymore with Mole Man… she said something like, ‘I could give you an aneurysm if I wanted to in two seconds,’” Kirby explained.
“In the comics, Sue uses that threat quite a lot: ‘I could put a force field in your brain and give you an aneurysm. I could put an air bubble inside of you and kill you in an instant.’
“These powers are also really lethal and really dangerous. But these four have chosen to unite the global community and be a force for good. But they could also choose to be a force for bad. I love the concept of choice, not just, ‘Oh, we’re superheroes, that’s who we are.’
“She’s made this decision, but at her fingertips, she could be lethal. It felt so real to me that somebody that’s trying to be a force for good also has the capacity, like we all do, for the light and the dark.”
Kirby is the first to admit she’s a “Sue nerd,” and it’s one of many reasons she’s so perfect for the role.
“There was something so allegorical about her. She was called Invisible Girl. Then Psycho-Man comes and disrupts everything, and she has a meeting with her own dark side in Malice,” she added.
“She comes back, and she renames herself Invisible Woman. So she transforms from a girl to a woman. There’s something about meeting the hardest parts of yourself in Malice that felt extremely poignant to me.
“I’m really hopeful I might be allowed to be Malice at some point for her.”
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