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Terry Crews wants to portray Silver Surfer

The actor expressed his love for Marvel superheroes Luke Cage and Silver Surfer.

By Annie Martin
Terry Crews wants to portray the Silver Surfer. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Terry Crews would like to portray the Silver Surfer.

The 46-year-old actor revealed as much when asked which superhero he would like to play in a Reddit AMA on Thursday. Crews shared his enthusiasm for the Marvel superhero, and applauded Mike Colter being cast on Netflix series AKA: Jessica Jones.

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"I always did love Luke Cage, and I'm really, really happy about who they cast in the Netflix version of Luke Cage," he said. "So that's something that's already done. But you know who else I'd like to play? The Silver Surfer."

"I always LOVED [the Silver Surfer]," he confessed. "I thought I had the build, the body, I could get on that surfboard, and if they ever do a live-action version of Silver Surfer, I think that would be perfect for me."

Silver Surfer possesses superhuman abilities and a surfboard which can travel faster than the speed of light. The character was previously portrayed by Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

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Crews recently appeared as Hale Caesar in The Expendables 3, and currently stars as Terry Jeffords on Fox comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The actor also is a spokesman for Old Spice, and played his own wife in a Super Bowl ad that debuted last week.

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