Author: Carly Mallenbaum / Source: USA TODAY
Brie Larson gives insight to what it took to become Captain Marvel, including the toughest part about shooting the film. USA TODAY
HOLLYWOOD – Marvel superheroes have a stellar track record of getting girlfriends, right after they harness their superpowers and beat baddies.
Iron Man loved Pepper Potts, Captain America pined for Peggy Carter, and Thor romanced Jane Foster; Ant-Man hooked up with the Wasp, Spider-Man got homecoming date Liz, and Black Panther reunited with Nakia.
“Captain Marvel” takes a power blast to that whole trope.
Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers, the first woman in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to lead a solo film, stays single throughout the movie, which hits theaters Friday. That means no kiss, no boyfriend, no romantic interest that she might be on the outs with by the time “Avengers: Endgame” arrives April 26 (which she’ll also be seen in).
Having Carol unattached helps keep the focus on the woman with the superhuman strength, and not on how she is with who she’s with, says Kelly Sue DeConnick, who writes the Captain Marvel comics that inspired the movie.
“Carol is not loveless, she’s not joyless, she’s not even sexless,” DeConnick says. “But what has happened historically with female protagonists is we will define them in terms of who they love or who loves them. And it’s usually about a man.
“Then, everything is in relation to the man and about whether…
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