Yes, CaptainMarvel star BrieLarson knows every line to ThePrincessBride. Watch her recite the film's most iconic quote:
The Oscar winner and fierce gender-equality activist is proud to be starring as Carol Danvers in the Disney-owned studio's first female-fronted franchise — just don't conflate its success with the fate of women in Hollywood:"We have been opening movies since the silent era."
, the 21st movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and first ever from the wildly successful Disney division to be fronted by a woman. But, three years after she won an Oscar for her performance in the indie drama, the 29-year-old actress is confident enough to reject your media narrative about box office stakes and the fate of women and blah blah blah because Larson has read this story before and she knows how it ends.
, the company making this film knows it has been a long time coming, and its arrival in theaters is freighted with meaning. "We feel like it'll be the first of many," says Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, when asked why it took so long to make a Marvel movie with a female lead. "There were a lot of men in that initial run of, a pivotal movie for the studio that will establish the key heroes in the next era of Marvel movies.
Some reactions to the marketing for the film suggest there still exists a gender divide among the Marvel audience, as when some male fans on social media complained that Larson wasn't smiling in the trailer, with one Twitter user going so far as to Photoshop a smile onto her face.
Larson says the weight-training was as transformative emotionally as it was physically, partly because it happened to coincide with the early days of the Time's Up movement, in which she was deeply involved, occasionally hosting meetings at her home. "It's the time that I was starting to be able to lift a lot more and I was learning how to punch and kick and do judo throws," she says.
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