Desde Hollywood’s @NestorCine attended the CAPTAIN MARVEL Globlal Press Conference, celebrated recently in Beverly Hills.

The promotional event featured Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, Directors Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, and actors Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law, Clark Gregg, Gemma Chan, Lashana Lynch.

Find below some highlights of what the two main protagonists said, Larson (Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel) and Jackson (Nick Fury).

CAPTAIN MARVEL will be released in theaters on March 8.

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BRIE LARSON on playing Captain Marvel

“There’s a lot to love about her, which is why I was really excited to do this; in particular, the idea of playing a superhero, or a female superhero in particular because my interest is in female complexity; I was a little worried about playing somebody, a superhero that would be perfect — because I don’t feel like that’s realistic, or something aspirational at all. In particular, even with my job, like you could just see this beautiful finished product where I look great, maybe… in your opinion. [LAUGHTER] Ah, but you don’t know all the other takes that are on the cutting room floor where sometimes I physically landed on my face doing stunts — and sometimes I just do a bad take. It’s just how it goes.
So getting to play a character where the whole character arc and turn of this is watching her be this major risk taker, which means it’s not always going to work out the best. And those are the moments, the defining moments of her character, where she doesn’t lay down, she gets back up. I mean, that’s everything. That’s for everybody. There isn’t a person who can’t relate to that, I don’t think.”

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BRIE LARSON on the physical training

“I sobbed in the gym many times. My trainer would be like, oh, she’s crying again. It’s very emotional when you’re kind of stirring up something very vulnerable and raw inside of you and you’re also learning that it’s just for you; there was nothing for me to prove. I wasn’t proving it to other people at the gym. I certainly wasn’t proving it to my trainer, because he was never going to be fully impressed; it’s his job to not be impressed. It was for myself.
And for me, the main reason for doing it was so that in moments like this when we’re talking about Carol’s strength and we’re talking about, you know, what I learned from her, it’s that I’m stronger than I realized. Of course this movie is like assisted with the VFX, because I can’t personally shoot photon blasts. There’s not enough prep in the world for me to do that, yet. But I will figure it out if there’s a way. But I can stand here and say that I am really strong; I was able to dead-lift 225 pounds; I was able to hip-thrust 400 pounds. I was able to push my trainer’s 5000-pound Jeep up a hill for 60 seconds. Um, so this concept, when it comes to like gender norms or what the human body is capable of or in particular maybe what a female body is capable of, it’s capable of a lot, you know.”

SAMUEL L. JACKSON on playing a younger Nick Fury

“He’s sort of a kinder, gentler, not so cynical world-weary, chip-on-the-shoulder Nick Fury. Who hadn’t met anyone from another universe just yet and sort of looking at the crazy lady, trying to figure out why she thinks she’s an alien [LAUGHTER] and what all that means and, ah… it’s kind of… kind of fun to not be the all-knowing, you know, angry, ah… persuader that Nick Fury always is, and even more.”

SAMUEL L. JACKSON on working with cats

“I am not a cat person. But I’m also not a dog, bird or a fish person, either. [LAUGHTER] So I just don’t… I don’t engage pets. You know, Reggie is like… most animals that, you know, people bring to set that have been trained to do this, that or the other — he’s snack-oriented. You give him something to eat, he shows up. You know, you give him something to eat, you talk softly and nice to him, give him something to eat again. They love you. You know, so, it works out. And… there were actually four cats, but Reggie did the majority, he did the, you know, heavy lifting most of the time. But um, you know, it was great to be around. I mean, she had more problems with him than I did, because she has cat allergies.”

CAPTAIN MARVEL will be released in theaters on March 8.

Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.