In a red-carpet interview with the BBC at the “First Steps” premiere in London, a reporter asked Garner about the response from certain … fans … who were upset that the “Silver Surfer” is female. The “Wolf Man” actress gave a gracious response – in which she embedded a savage, blink-and-you-missed it schooling.

"I said, ‘I'm just going to still do my job,'" she said of the backlash. She also noted that she plays a variation on the character, adding, "It's Shalla-Bal, so it's different." Shalla-Bal, first seen in "The Silver Surfer" #1 in 1968,

Julia Garner just shut down critics of her Silver Surfer casting with a single, subtle comic book reference, and she didn’t even have to raise her voice.