Vanessa Kirby recently disclosed a surprising detail about the production of the latest Marvel film: she lost her voice during a pivotal scene. In the movie, her character, Sue Storm, goes into labor on a spacecraft while being pursued by the Silver Surfer.
In an interview with Variety, The Crown actress revealed that she spent two weeks shooting that birth scene “in zero gravity,” and completely lost her voice after “roaring” with pain non-stop.
“We had an amazing couple of weeks shooting that sequence in that spaceship. I loved every minute. I lost my voice by the end. You only see a few shots in there, but we did hundreds, just roaring the whole time,” she recalled.
Vanessa added, “I think the crew had to get earplugs by the end. It was a very beautiful thing to shoot. I felt so supported by those actors.”
In the scene, Sue, while giving birth, receives support from her husband Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, brother Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and friend Ben Grimm/The Thing. These roles are portrayed by Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, respectively.
The actress also reflected on her initial reaction to reading the scene in the script, stating, “I remember reading that going, ‘This is so cool that, at the midpoint of the movie, it centers this woman giving birth, and these three kind and loving men supporting her as she’s doing it.’ It was so cool to see that a superhero was doing something so primal and so utterly human. I was most excited for that bit.”
It’s also worth noting that Vanessa Kirby, whose film The Fantastic Four: First Steps was released on July 25, is pregnant in real life with her first child.
