I don't think about it that way because I feel like
there's been a lot of great female characters that were already,
in my mind, leading things in the MCU, so I'm just joining them.
There's a lot that I love about Carol,
but the thing that I keep coming back to with her
is her ability to get back up.
She's a major risk-taker and that means it doesn't always pan out
the way she hopes it will, but she always learns from her mistakes
and I think that's a real superhero.
I don't think about it that way because I feel like
there's been a lot of great female characters that were already,
in my mind, leading things in the MCU, so I'm just joining them.
You find Nick Fury in this film riding a desk at SHIELD.
They haven't quite discovered their identity yet.
He hadn't met anyone from outer space or any aliens.
He's doing threat assessment
and he's a kind of gentler Nick than we normally see.
First of all she's female, she's extremely powerful,
and she's a different kind of hero.
When you see her, she's way more human
and the enhancements have just made her a better person than she was.
There's a story about stick-to-itiveness.
Getting knocked down nine times, getting up ten,
it can make you stronger.
There's a woman's empowerment, there's a story about hero worship
and young girls looking up to these two strong women
that are inside this story, and them being her role models.
A lot of things, it's gonna be fun.
They're going to be introduced to a new, very powerful superhero,
possibly the most powerful in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,
but it's not your ordinary origin story.
We meet her and she's already super-powered,
she can shoot blasts from her fists,
and then we get to experience the mystery.
As she learns about herself and her history,
we get to learn about that too.
Yes, and it has everything that Marvel movies usually have,
this movie, which are the explosions and the action
and the fighting and all of that fun stuff,
but it also has a real emotional arc and emotional journey
that the character goes on and hopefully the audience does too.
There's two parts to working on a Marvel film.
One is the experience of just witnessing how they make their films
and the other, which is what I'm most excited about,
is it being released to the audience,
because they're incredibly passionate fans and there's an element of-,
you hope they get everything out of it that you feel you put in.
And it also feels like you're then welcomed into the Marvel universe,
I suppose, because they give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down.
You kind of know when you're in a Marvel film
and when you're going to watch one,
that there's going to be thrill, action, humour,
that there are going to be links to all these
other movies in the universe,
but I think each one also has its own subject matter.
This one is very much to do with the strength of female relationships,
the strength of individuals,
and there's also a really interesting perspective on conflict,
looking at conflict from different sides.
So Minerva is a Kree, she's a warrior, she's a soldier.
She's very loyal.
Yeah, she's pretty badass.
She kicks a lot of arse in the film.
I think Carol's journey in the film is very much about
her rediscovering her humanity and learning to use all sides of herself.
So she's strong but she's also vulnerable,
she also has empathy and heart,
and I think, yeah, also whenever she gets knocked down, she gets back up.
I think that's really inspiring.
I think the key messages are just getting to see
a whole range of female relationships,
which is unusual to get in a superhero film,
and also just there are a lot of, I think,
themes in the movie that you don't get hit over the head with.
Whether that's about war or tribalism or conflict,
I think there are messages in there about that as well.
I've been a fan of Brie's for many years,
both for her acting work but also her activism outside work.
So yeah, it's been a dream to work with her, she's amazing.
I'm so excited.
I've not been able to talk about it for a long time,
so it's nice for everyone to see what we've been doing.
We've been cooking up something really special
that I think is going to evoke even more change
just in the world and in the industry,
and I just feel really proud of it.
Honestly, I feel really, really truly proud.
I can't wait for everyone to see it.
So Maria Rambeau is an ex-test fighter pilot
and she's also a single mother,
and it was important for me to show that single mothers
and fighter pilots are superheroes as well.
You don't necessarily have to have the conventional powers
that we all know and love in order to represent someone
who is strong and bold and fearless and uses her voice to evoke change,
and I got to do that and I feel really proud.
Captain Marvel is Carol Danvers first,
and Carol Danvers knew her power.
She's a normal woman who was a fighter pilot.
Like I said, they're superheroes and they're pretty damn wicked.
She gets to be empowered at the beginning,
get it stripped away from her, get it back,
and then when she gets it back, she suddenly has this new life
where she's able to enforce change,
and both Brie and Carol get to do that simultaneously
and that's pretty amazing to watch.
I think that young people will take a lot from this movie.
I think that it's great that we're creating a classic movie
that I didn't have when I was growing up,
and young girls and boys, actually, will be able to see
that this is just normal life now.
From now on, we're hopefully going to have
a whole bunch of superhero movies that are going to inspire
and that are going to make people realise who they are,
realise their worth and realise their inner power.
And women, I hope that they just feel like they're represented, man.
There's so many different types of women in this movie
and I feel like we've taken them all and just said,
'I can't give you the sun, but I can give you this representation of you
and hopefully it's enough.'
I think one of the most important things about Carol
is she gets knocked down all the time
and she has been knocked down her entire life, and she gets up.
She gets up over and over and over and over again
until she gets to where she needs to get to,
and she actually finds who she is because of it.
So I say to all the girls out there
you're gonna get knocked down, this is what happens.
It happens to all of us. You get up, get up and go get it.
Listen, trying to get the right chemistry
with a cast is always difficult,
but we have such talented people that it's so hard to say it was hard,
you know what I mean?
If the chemistry works, it's magic, and to do what Sam and Brie have
as partners in this journey is beautiful.