In an interview last month, the Marvel newcomer was said she has noticed that press junkets for her movies are always overwhelmingly populated by white men – with women and writers of colour not given the same opportunities. Indeed, there was even a study to back her up. When she said she wanted to help those less-represented groups get in on the action, her words were misinterpreted to mean that “Brie Larson hates white men”. This resulted in the film’s Rotten Tomatoes audience anticipation score nosediving, and even some smaller film websites completely misrepresenting her remarks.
Now, in a filmed interview with Fox 5 DC, Larson has addressed the whole fuss.
When the interviewer mentioned that “headlines” have misrepresented her, she said: “It’s hard for me to comment on that because I don’t know what the headlines were or what was said or what I said or what people think I said.”
But she clarified: “All that I know is, what I’m looking for is to bring more seats up to the table.
“Nobody is getting their chair taken away.”
“[The adjustments] are not simply a reaction to, ‘Oh, gee, there’s some noise created around [certain movies],’” he told CNET.
He clarified that they were aimed at “noise reduction”; making it slightly harder for agenda-driven keyboard warriors to negatively impact movies such as Captain Marvel, Black Panther or Star Wars.
Captain Marvel’s early buzz has been very promising from critics’ tweets, but full reviews will not be unveiled until early next week.
Alongside Larson in the cast are Samuel L Jackson, Gemma Chan, Jude Law, Annette Bening, Lashana Lynch, Clark Gregg, Ben Mendelsohn and many more.
Captain Marvel is out on March 8.