Emily Blunt shot down a long-standing rumor that she'll play the Invisible Woman in the MCU's Fantastic Four.
Speaking to Howard Stern, Blunt addressed the rumors that have placed her and husband John Krasinski as Sue Storm and Reed Richards. "That is fan-casting. No one has received a phone call," Blunt said. "That's just people saying, 'Wouldn’t that be great?'"
Stern suggested Blunt might be "too good" for a superhero role, but Blunt said that wasn't quite it. "It's not that it's beneath me. I love Iron Man and when I got offered Black Widow I was obsessed with Iron Man," Blunt said about turning down the role of Natasha Romanoff for Iron Man 2. "I wanted to work with Robert Downey Jr.—it would've been amazing… but I don't know if superhero movies are for me. They're not up my alley. I don't like them. I really don't."
Blunt did not entirely erase the possibility of her suiting up, but she did express fatigue with the superhero genre. "It's been exhausted," she said. "We are inundated—it's not only all the movies, it's the endless TV shows as well. It's not to say that I'd never want to play one, it would just have to be something so cool and like a really cool character, and then I'd be interested."
The MCU's Fantastic Four received a new surge of attention following the Phase 4 trailer, as the iconic team logo served as the closing image. Beyond Blunt and Krasinski, speculation has already begun for the ideal casting of Marvel's First Family, with Red Dead Redemption 2 actor Roger Clark being caught up in rumors of his alleged casting as The Thing.
Directed by Jon Watts, Fantastic Four has yet to receive a release date.
Source: Howard Stern