{"id":30404,"date":"2025-07-29T06:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30404\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T06:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:05:12","slug":"pieces-of-a-woman-led-to-fantastic-four-birth-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30404\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pieces of a Woman’ Led to ‘Fantastic Four’ Birth Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

The below contains spoilers for \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/a>,\u201d now in theaters, and the 2020 film<\/a> \u201cPieces of a Woman<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n

Vanessa Kirby<\/a> brought a piece of her former film experience to \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps.\u201d The actress tapped into her past Oscar-nominated turn in 2020 Netflix drama \u201cPieces of a Woman\u201d for a certain sequence in the latest MCU installment. Kirby\u2019s respective characters give birth in both features; Kirby, who is currently pregnant in real life, told Variety<\/a> while promoting \u201cFirst Steps\u201d that she was \u201cso excited\u201d to be giving birth again onscreen. <\/p>\n

\u201cI also did a birth in this this little movie called \u2018Pieces of a Woman.\u2019 I was so excited to be asked to do it again, and I also wanted to make it different. And then, of course, we were doing it in zero gravity, so that\u2019s its own challenge,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

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\u201cPieces of a Woman\u201d was the English-language debut of director Korn\u00e9l Mundrucz\u00f3. Kirby\u00a0and Shia LaBeouf played a couple reeling after their home birth ends in tragedy. Martin Scorsese executive produced the film. Kirby previously told IndieWire<\/a> that \u201cPieces of a Woman\u201d was \u201cexhilarating\u201d and the \u201cbest film experience of [her] life\u201d at the time.<\/p>\n

Five years later, and Kirby\u2019s \u201cFirst Steps\u201d birthing storyline is decidedly more family-friendly. Her character Sue Storm gives birth in space, and the infant changes the course of the MCU. \u201cI remember reading that going, \u2018This 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\u2019s doing it,’\u201d Kirby said to Variety about the sequence alongside her co-stars Pedro Pascal, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn. \u201cIt was so cool to see that a superhero was doing something so primal and so utterly\u00a0human. I was most excited for that bit.\u201d <\/p>\n

She continued, \u201cThe courage to put this very primal feminine act \u2014 and what it represents that it\u2019s happening intergalactically while they\u2019re in space \u2014 there\u2019s something very metaphorical about it. 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. 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.\u201d <\/p>\n

Kirby also could relate to the \u201cmaternal force\u201d embodied by \u201cFirst Steps.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a way, it taught me so much about motherhood, because that\u2019s what motherhood is. It\u2019s not a passive thing. To give birth, you have to be completely, totally fierce. I\u2019m so happy that you feel that. That\u2019s so moving to me, and all I could have hoped for her,\u201d she said of the film. \u201cIt was so helpful to know that it was a mother\u2019s rage, and a mother\u2019s love, because it felt animal. I wanted it to feel more primal, rather than just, \u2018I\u2019m trying to defeat this enemy for everybody.\u2019 It\u2019s more like, \u2018I\u2019m fighting to save my child.\u2019 I wanted to tap into how fierce the feminine is, while knowing that Sue also embodies a very soft femininity as well. I really noticed my own apprehensions about playing a pregnant mother, superhero, wife, and sister. We were so conscious of trying not to fall into any tropes. It\u2019s not like Sue had to be so tough that she couldn\u2019t also be very gentle. Mothers are honestly warriors, everyday superheroes. We all know that, because we all come from one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The below contains spoilers for \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps,\u201d now in theaters, and the 2020 film \u201cPieces…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2332,2839,18741,5397,56,54,55,5230],"class_list":["post-30404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-movies","tag-pieces-of-a-woman","tag-the-fantastic-four-first-steps","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vanessa-kirby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}