BRIE’S MARVELLOUS DREAM IS FULFILLED

Playing Captain Marvel let actor Brie Larson do something she’d never thought possible — talk about feminism all day

Featuring in and as Captain Marvel helped Brie Larson realise a dream she didn’t think was possible. The actor says the film gave her a “larger” platform to contribute to feminism, a cause dear to her heart.

Larson stars in the film as US Air Force pilot Carol Danvers, who becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes – Captain Marvel.

The 29-year-old actor, who is a vocal women’s rights activist, says it struck her while working on the film that she would be able to reach out to more people with the message of gender parity, a privilege not enjoyed by an indie movie.

“Because the film is so big, I knew I would be able to share certain concepts on a much larger scale than I’d been able to previously in independent films and even carry that over in the press tours,” the Room (2015) actor gushes.

“I have never had a press tour like this where we were able to work on reaching parity along the way. I feel so lucky I made my first blockbuster movie and I just get to talk about feminism all day. I never would have thought that was like a possibility for me. That’s like my dream,” Larson adds.

With Captain Marvel, which is an origin story set in the 1990s, the actor has become the first woman to lead a standalone superhero film within the concerned universe. The Oscar winner says she toiled for nine months before she started shooting and the inherent connect with the story made her get up every day, even when she felt like giving up.

“I think you have to have something that transcends the movie, that keeps you going, that gives you fuel every day. Because it takes too long to make it — I trained for nine months. Then the shoot was 75 days. It’s almost a year to go at something really hard every single day,” she shares.

“It’s very easy to burn out. So you have to have something that’s kind of in the pit of your stomach that is this undeniable thing that you can remind yourself of,” she says, adding that it was important to her that all female characters (played by Lashana Lynch, Annette Bening, and Gemma Chan) in the film got their chance to shine.

Because the film is so big, I knew I would be able to share certain concepts on a much larger scale than I’d been able to previously in independent films.

BRIE LARSON ACTOR

PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK With the film, Brie Larson has become the first woman to lead a standalone superhero film in the concerned cinematic universe