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.

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.

"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,