Brie Larson's Unusual Reaction To Being Asked About Playing Captain Marvel 

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film involve Oscar Winning actress Brie Larson (Room, Trainwreck), and that she is in talks to star in the film.

Her name has long been mentioned in discussions of who could best portray  the fan favorite character, and in an interview with MTV back in 2015, the topic actually came up. It seems that Larson isn\'t that familiar with the character, however, and possibly got the character confused with DC\'s Captain Marvel, better known as Shazam, as her first thought was: "To play, isn\'t that a boy?"

The interviewer gave Larson a few more details, but she still wasn\'t familiar, saying:"The first female, so would I be playing a man? (laughs), I was like this is interesting, I\'m kind of into it. I thought I was always forever going to be stuck playing female roles but, I\'m down to play Chris Evans. No, wait, Chris Evans is Captain America. Who\'s Captain Marvel?"

After a brief pause, the actress still couldn\'t place the character, but would still be up for the role if that is what fans want to see, adding: "no idea what I\'m talking about, great, but people want me to this? Okay, good to know. I guess I\'ve got to start reading the comic book."

Whether she has previous knowledge of the character or not, I still think she\'d be great in the role. You can see what she might look like as Captain Carol Danvers thanks to artist extraordinaire Boss Logic here.

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cute. at first i thought she meant "captain marvel is a boy from dc" lol but she mixed up captain marvel with captain america lol

I\'m up for her to play Captain Marvel, just wish it was called Ms Marvel first in her black an gold dud\'s then could\'ve change to Captain Marvel later on. Would have liked to know there was the male Captain Marvel first in the MCU, even for a short back story cameo.

I call BS on this story. How could she be the last to know.

Pretty sure that means any rumors of her \'circling\' the role of late are complete BS. I mean, if she\'s never even heard of Captain Marvel, it stands to reason she\'s not in talks to play her...

My question was: Who is Brie Larson? I had to Google her name. The only movie of hers I\'ve seen is Scott Pilgrim. Seeing as I didn\'t even remember her from the movie, it must have been a forgettable performance.