Turned down offer to act as Captain Marvel role twice, says Brie Larson

It was on February 27, 2019, that Marvel released ‘Captain Marvel’, a superhero movie based on the character Carol Danvers. The film had Brie Larson in the title role, and this mega-budget project emerged as a blockbuster at the box-office, collecting more than a billion-dollar worldwide.

Now, in one of her recent videos uploaded on the YouTube, Larson has claimed to have rejected the offer to act in Captain Marvel not once but twice. According to Larson, she had rejected the offer because of her anxiety to pull off such a challenging role on screen.

“Oh, I can’t do that. I have too much anxiety. That’s too much for me. I don’t think I could handle that. I’m too much of an introvert. That’s way too big of a thing for me,” said Larson on the video.

Larson revealed that the film’s production team later convinced her to do the role. The actress also added that she was convinced to see lots of females in the crew that includes Anna Boden and Geneva Robertson-Dworet.

In the video, Larson also talked about the movies for which she attended the audition, but failed to fetch roles. The actress revealed that she had attended the audition for Marvel’s Iron Man 2 and Thor, but she did not get roles in these films made in 2010 and 2011 respectively.

Some of the other movies for which Larson attended auditions were Avatar, Sucker Punch, Gulliver’s Travels, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, The Book of Eli, Get Him to the Greek, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Juno and Pitch Perfect. However, the Academy Award-winning actress did not succeed in impressing the makers of this movie.