(sighing)
- Hello, I'm Brie Larson and I will
be answering fan questions while playing with puppies.
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(crying)
Hello baby.
Hi.
Wait more?
I get two?
Three?
- Four.
- Four?
Oh my gosh.
No way, come on, join the party baby.
Wanna sit in my lap?
Hi little angels.
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Oh, come back here, baby.
Uh, I did have hesitations because I was uh,
I didn't know that I would do interviews with puppies.
I didn't know that was part of the contract.
I thought that I was actually scared
of this part of the process.
The idea of my face being places
and dealing with the sort of fame stuff was not
super appealing to me 'cause I am an introvert,
so I needed to take a little bit of time
to see if I could handle the leadership
position of this part,
but I didn't have any issue with the character
or the movie or what they were trying to do with it.
In fact, I was really excited about it,
which was why it was kind of a difficult decision,
but I'm really glad I did it,
and it feels like a giant win for introverts everywhere.
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It was just a very simple moment.
I was in a wardrobe fitting,
and I didn't even know it was happening.
I had tried on various pieces of the costume,
and you kinda do a fitting for the boots,
and a fitting for the pants,
a fitting for the top, a fitting for the helmet,
and so I didn't know that I was finally
gonna put it all on for the first time
and it takes a couple people to put it all on
and I was talking and wasn't paying attention
and suddenly I looked in the mirror
and was like oh my gosh, I look like a Disneyland character.
And then I just was like, really concerned
about going to the bathroom.
I'm also like a woman, so I have a menstruation,
and that was scary to me, I was like, what do I do?
(laughing) How do super heroes do this?
But they were super awesome and had tons of extra, you know,
zippers and ways that I could get out of it.
Still took like 30 minutes to get out of it
to go to the bathroom, but it's fine.
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It impacted me in that it made me,
from the very beginning, I mean, just deciding
to take on the role meant that I was
going outside of my comfort zone
and gonna push myself to do things
that were, I don't know, things that I never thought
that I could do, whether it was dead lifting
or learning martial arts,
things like that, those were all very new for me.
I don't know, I have no expectations.
How it impacts people, you know,
I don't really know, I don't really feel like it's up to me.
Oh you came back, you came back to me.
Why is that so satisfying?
I feel like accepted and understood and seen.
Oh, that's an expensive shoe.
(laughing)
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Hmm, there's a couple things
for different reasons that were intense.
There's a ropes course scene in the movie,
and we did that 50 feet up in the air on wires.
I had to learn how to do these kinda like flip
around wire kick things, that was pretty cool and new.
And also like the thing, I think it's in the trailer,
I think people have seen it now,
where I'm hanging on the side of a train
and I sort of pull myself up and go
into a shoulder role and then blast.
Oh also, in the mine frack sequence
when I'm hanging upside down, so I'm hanging
by my ankles, and I have to use my abs
to lift myself up, break the restraints,
and then flip around and land.
That took like a solid weekend
to learn how to get right.
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I really have been into butterfly clips.
I also keep thinking about hit clips.
I don't know if anybody else remembers those,
but they were like 60 second like, little microchips
that you could buy at Mcdonalds
that play like NSYNC and Backstreet Boys.
I don't know why I so badly want those
to come back, 'cause they're really not practical, but
I like it.
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It was a lot of stuff.
My workout routine was like, still,
you've got all the toys in the world
and you just want a very expensive shoe.
It was like an hour and half every day
for six months, and then three months
before we started shooting, we would do two a days.
And the two a days were (laughing)
were still doing that hour and a half
of like cardio and, come back here!
You are hilarious, love your spirit.
Cardio and weight lifting, but then we added
in fight training, so I'd work with a stunt team
for two hours and kinda do like the making of
a future super hero stuff like learning footwork
and punches and kicks and wire work,
like literally learning how to fly.
And then other than that you just drink a lot of water
and eat a lot of food.
Oh yeah, you're into that.
(toy squeaking)
What was the question?
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My real life role model is my mom, for sure,
and then I loved the Spice Girls.
I loved Sailor Moon, I'd like come home
from school just to try to not miss a second of Sailor Moon.
I did read Wonder Woman comics growing up,
so maybe some of that.
Yeah!
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I think, I mean the photon blaster's super cool,
but the more I think about it,
the more I feel like flying is probably the most practical
application I could use for my life.
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Yeah, I mean, I don't even need to cut it for a movie,
I've had my hair that short before.
I've kinda been thinking about doing it to be honest,
just because it's less work.
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I feel like at this point of my life,
I'm probably the most like Carol than anything,
but it's also just because she's such an empowering role,
whereas I feel like most of the things I did before
were more dramatic, and so when those movies were done,
I was like I can kinda leave that experience behind,
but after playing Carol for close to a year basically,
once it was all said and done,
I just, I dig her vibe, and I feel like a lot
of the way that she views the world
and in particular how she owns and views herself
I think is empowering and helpful to me.
I've just decided to be a little bit more like her.
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I can tell you nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
So this was me doing an interview
while playing with puppies, and I wish it would never end.
I want to thank the Best Friend Animal Society
for allowing me to play with these beautiful puppies.
Please go to their website bestfriends.org
to find your best friend today.
Are you sure you don't want to ask me more questions?
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