She’s an all-powerful Air Force pilot from outer space.
He’s a government desk jockey with zero extraterrestrial experience.
It’s a playful, trash-talking relationship based in reality.
“And I was like, ‘c’mon.
I need to be with my pal.
Don’t let me do it alone!'”
(They also opened up about their scene-stealing costar: Goose the cat.)
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I even asked him.
He’s like, “No.
Are you gonna give me advice?”
I’m like, “No.”
He was like, “You’re fine.
It was the same thing with [Captain Marvel].
LARSON:You mean with Marvel?
JACKSON:With becoming that kind of character in that kind of movie.
It just changes the game in another kind of way.
You become godlike in a crazy kinda way.
LARSON:It’s so cool.
I wish I was a Jedi.
JACKSON:[You hear] chanting outside your hotel-room window at night.
It’s like, “You’re adults, go away!”
LARSON:I got to hold his lightsaber!
He brought it to me on set on May the 4th, and I cried.
It was so cool.
I wanna be a Jedi.
You’ve talked before about how the size and scale ofCaptain Marvelhasn’t felt real to you yet.
Has that started to change at all?LARSON:You have brief moments.
Like when we did an event in Singapore, I felt a little bit of something.
But I feel grateful that I get to be the conduit for a certain symbol.
I don’t recognize it as being me.
JACKSON:But you know, you’re gonna have squeal moments now.
Wherever you go, it’s gonna be, “Ah!
Captain Marvel, ah!”
LARSON:But it’s important to me to be like, “I’m not Captain Marvel.
I’m not.”
JACKSON:I know.
But don’t worry about it.
As long as you have hold of that, it’s fine.
LARSON:I do.
I feel more grateful than I thought I would feel at this.
I thought I would be more shaken by this process.
I’m more interested in it than I thought my introverted self could handle.
There’s something still light about Nick Fury.
But now he’s on a desk.
It’s kinda like he’s on hiatus.
[Carol is] his first extraterrestrial.
She opens up a whole new world for him.
The film’s chief villains, the Skrulls, do a lot of shape-shifting and impersonation in this movie.
JACKSON:Oh, you know the one question that you could ask that would totally identify me?
“Who’s your least favorite person onKong?”
LARSON:It’s so true.
It became a great opportunity, even with things like the love story.
It’s perfect to me and so meaningful.
What are the different ways that can look?
JACKSON:It’s kinda crazy, too, that being Captain Marvel doesn’t necessarily define you.
So that whole thing about, you know, “You are what we made you.”
It’s like, “That’s some bulls.”
Like, “I was a badass way before we got there.”
That’s how it works.
Big swings sometimes mean a big failure.
We also have to talk about your feline costar: Reggie, who plays Goose the cat.
Brie, is it true you’re allergic to cats?LARSON:I’m severely allergic.
Not just kind of allergic like, very, very allergic.
JACKSON:Were you Benadryl-ing all day when he was on set?
LARSON: All day.
It became this joke because the crew would watch me all day doing crazy stunts.
I did that ropes course stunt 50 feet up in the air on the first week.
I threw [a stunt person] in a judo throw on a moving train, day two.
We need to have a conversation!”
Sam, how did you get along with Reggie?JACKSON: Fine!
All those things are snack-oriented.
LARSON: I mean, that’s basically how I work, too.
JACKSON:He had a big lawn chair and a cigarette.
LARSON:In Louisiana, he’d sit in the hammock.
He would just be laying outside in Louisiana, looking like fully an alien.
JACKSON:Swinging and smoking.
So imagine the full Skrull look, but with those shoes.
JACKSON:Gucci sneaks!
It’s kinda good."
JACKSON:I’m still convincing her.
She’s not convinced I’m her muse yet.
LARSON:The thing I’m writing right now, there’s no part for you in it!
But I will find something for you.
I wanna do everything with you, Sam.
JACKSON:I mean, I can just walk across the screen.
I don’t have to say anything.
I’ll just roll on by.
And everybody will be like, “Is that… Samuel L. Jackson?
“LARSON:Yeah, that’s why he wants to do it.
For people to be like, “Why is he just grabbing a sandwich in the background?
Which is what I wanted to do forBreaking Bad.
LARSON:Now we can save it; we can do it in my movie!
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