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Captain Marvel Star Brie Larson Cried When She Watched Wonder Woman

Published Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:15:12 -0600

Last updated Sat, 16 Feb 2019 14:43:01 -0600

It's not easy putting on the uniform. To take on the role of a superhero in this day and age is to essentially become that hero in the eyes of the public. It's not exactly an easy thing to deal with. Plenty of actors and actresses have talked about hesitating to take on the role. Marvel infamously had to ask Chris Evans multiple times to take on the role of Steve Rogers and even then Evans has spoken at length about the anxiety that comes from this sort of spotlight. It's not that surprising that Captain Marvel star Brie Larson spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about why she didn't even want to take a meeting about becoming Carol Danvers.

"I was hesitant to even meet," Larson says. "I was like, 'I don't think what comes with a movie like that is anything that I can harness and hold. I'm too much of an introvert. I'll just collapse.' … But then they started talking to me about this film, and I was like, 'Drat, this is the culmination of a lot of things I've wanted.' "

Larson did eventually take on the role but that didn't mean the anxiety went away. Then something happened that made her cry in a movie theater. Larson went to go see Wonder Woman and found herself sobbing in the theater.

"As a kid, I wanted to be an adventurer," Larson says. "I wanted to be a smart-ass. I wanted to get my hands dirty. But it wasn't until being in the theater seeing Wonder Woman … I was like, 'Why is this making me cry so much?' I realized 'cause I hadn't had that, and there was a kid in me that was like, 'Oh, my God. I can do that?' "

Larson is far from the other person to cry during Wonder Woman and we can hope that there will be similar reactions to Captain Marvel or the way some people reacted to movies like Black Panther or Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Larson is a real talent and bringing her into the MCU can only improve things as it moves into the post-Avengers: Endgame world.

Summary: Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.

Captain Marvel, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, will also star Brie Larson, Jude Law, Gemma Chan, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Samuel L. Jackson. The film is set for release on March 8th, 2019.

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