By Oscar-winner Brie Larson isn’t done with her Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel role – even as “The Marvels” film was a box-office disaster. It was a major reversal of fortune after her first outing as the character made over a billion dollars at the global box-office.
This week she appeared on The Playlist’s Bingeworthy podcast to reflect on her critically acclaimed miniseries “Lessons in Chemistry” from last year.
As the interview took place after the Marvel panel at Comic-Con, she revealed she was as surprised as everyone else to learn of Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom casting:
“I want to be clear. I was just with Kevin [Feige]. It was like that same day, and he was like, ‘Oh yeah, we’re doing a thing at Comic-Con.’ He did not say that at all! Not at all!”
Asked about the future of her Captain Marvel character and whether the team of characters seen in “The Marvels” could come back together for a future project, she says:
“I just loved being with those ladies so much, and I think that the sentiment of it is so right to me and is much more where I’m at in my life, which is, there’s no one superhero that can save us.
It takes all kinds of people that have their own special skill sets and the ability to understand that the brink of disaster cannot be stopped by one. It’s all of us coming together. So that feels really right to me. And you know, as for the future, there’s things that I know, but I can’t tell you.”
Then she was asked specifically about the upcoming “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Avengers: Secret Wars” films, at which point she got evasive:
“I can’t say anything and I can’t even say that I don’t know anything because that might mean that there’s something to say or not say. So I’ll just say that I can’t say.”
She wasn’t the only one caught off-guard by the Downey reveal. Actor Jeremy Renner told US Weeky: “I had no idea. The son of a b—- didn’t say anything to me. We’re good friends. There’s the Avengers family chat. The original six. He said not a peep. I got online and started blowing up his phone like, ‘What’s going on? You’ve been hiding this from us the whole time?’ It’s exciting news. I’m really, really excited about it.”
“Avengers: Doomsday” is slated to begin production early next year in the UK.
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