-I was so excited to sit with you last night
at the "Time" 100 thing. -I know.
-We had a great table. -We had an awesome table.
-Right? It was fun. -We were with Nancy Pelosi
last night, we basically had dinner with her.
-Yeah. Basically, yeah. [ Light laughter ]
-Yeah. -You got the first shout out
of the night and got the biggest round of applause.
I've got to say, before we get into the interview,
I'm so impressed with how you've been dealing with
all of this press for the giant --
for "Captain Marvel" and "Avengers."
Every single interview you've done, you've done it so well.
And I've just got to say, I know how hard that work is,
and really, props to you. It's inspiring. You're awesome.
-Thanks, dude. -And I love it.
-That means a lot coming from you.
[ cheers and applause ] -You've done a great, great job.
I know how much work it is. -I hope my mom is watching.
Jimmy thinks I did a great job, mom.
[ Light laughter ] -Exactly, yeah.
I mean, can you -- "Captain Marvel" did over
a $1 billion. I mean -- -[ Laughing ] I know.
-It's the biggest movie ever.
I know it was a lot of work, but I mean --
you actually filmed "Avengers: Endgame"
before you filmed "Captain Marvel." Is that true?
-[ Normal voice ] That is true, yeah.
We filmed this, we filmed "Endgame"
before "Captain Marvel."
We didn't even have a script yet, really,
for "Captain Marvel." -How does that work?
how do you get into character?
-It doesn't, but we figure it out.
[ Light laughter ]
I basically -- I had directed a film
and it premiered at Toronto.
And I went from the premiere to the airport,
flew to Atlanta to start shooting,
had no idea what I was doing.
and I arrived and they gave me a piece of paper that had like --
it was a full page of dialogue and action
but all of it was redacted except for my one line.
And I even went to hair and make-up and was like,
"Who else is here?"
And they were like, "We don't know. We don't know."
[ Laughter ] -Okay, we're not allowed to --
-I was like, really? They're not allowed to tell me either?
-It's that secretive? -So it wasn't until I walked
on set, that I was like, "Oh, crap.
[ Laughter ]
I'm like, in a Marvel movie right now."
-Really? -Yeah, and then I couldn't talk
about it.
-But you can talk about "Captain Marvel."
-Yeah. What do you want to know about it?
[ Laughter ]
-Were there scenes in that movie that you didn't know
what they were about? -[ Laughing ] Yes.
[ Normal voice ] So I didn't know -- there's a tag in
"Captain Marvel", where it whip pans to me.
At's like all the avengers, it whip pans to me and I go,
"Where's Fury?"
I didn't know that was a tag for "Captain Marvel."
I didn't know what that was that we were shooting.
There was also nobody else there.
I was by myself on a green screen
and I walked in and they were like, "Just real quick,
we're just going to whip pan over to you
and you're just going to go, 'Where's Fury?'"
And I was like, "Cool, cool. got it, got it, got it."
They whip panned over to me and I was like,
"Wait, but where is he actually? Like is he in the room?
[ Laughter ] -Am I asking where he is here?
-What room am I in? Is he in like the other room?
-Fury? Fury, are you here? -Or is it, like,
another universe or whatever?
-Where's Fury? yeah. -They're like, "He's very gone."
-Okay. -And I was like,
I think this means that he's like -- he's [whispers] dead.
[ Light laughter ] So then afterwards,
they were like, "Okay, great, so after you say that
could you just look at the other people in the room?"
and I was like, "Okay, who else is in the room?"
and they're like, "Five people." -Wow.
-I was like, "Okay, could I have a tape mark?"
and they're like, "Sure." so they put some tape marks up,
and I went, "Where's Fury?" and then just kind of --
[ Laughter ]
-Now, that's how you act, right there. Come on.
That is how you get -- [ Cheers and applause ]
That's how you do it right there.
-Yeah. And then I had the pleasure
at the "Captain Marvel" premiere,
seeing what the scene was and going,
"Oh, that's what that meant." -That's pretty cool, yeah.
I heard that Samuel L. Jackson came to set.
It was on May 4th -- -Yeah.
-And he knows that you're a big "Star Wars" fan.
-Mmm. -And may the fourth be with you.
-Yeah. big day for "Star Wars" fans.
-Big day. -Very big day.
-And he brought a surprise for you, to show you.
-Yeah, he did.
He walked in and just, like, dropped this bag in my lap.
It was like a beautiful kind of silk bag.
I was like, "what is this?"
and I opened it and it was his lightsaber.
And I just immediately burst into tears.
-Wow! how cool is that? -Yeah, it's amazing.
I don't think he's supposed to have it.
[ Light laughter ] I'm not even sure if I'm
supposed to say that he has it.
I'm sure somebody has e-mailed him 5 million times,
they're like, "Mr. Jackson, we really need this back."
[ Light laughter ] But I feel like he's just --
He's got cinematic immunity in a way. You know?
-He's kind of allowed to -- -He does whatever he wants.
I want to be a little bit more him.
-What did it feel like? what did it look like?
-Super heavy. He actually got to pick it out himself.
That's like one of the perks of being a Jedi,
is you get to build your own lightsaber.
[ Laughter ] Crazy. I was like, "What?
I just have things coming out of my hands. I need a lightsaber."
[ Light laughter ]
-I need a lightsaber.
-It's engraved with something on it that I can't say on TV.
Right? Or will you bleep it out? -I can bleep it out.
What did it say? -Great, bleep this out.
It says "Bad mother[bleep]."
-All right, well yeah. [ cheers and applause ]
-People are scrambling behind the scenes.
-No, no, no, no! you cannot say the word "bad" on television.
[ Light laughter ] that's a -- absolutely not.
-I'm so sorry.
-But you got to direct him. -I did.
-In your first directorial debut.
-Mm-hmm. -Congrats on that.
-Thank you. -It's on Netflix now.
-Yeah, "Unicorn Store." [ cheers ]
-"Unicorn store." -Yeah.
-How fun is that directing Samuel L. Jackson?
-I mean it's completely terrifying.
But it's actually very easy once you realize --
because that was my third movie with him.
And I've watched him eat alive everyone around him.
And I've managed to stay his very close friend,
because I just know that he's right,
and I just don't question it. -Exactly.
[ Light laughter ] -Don't give him notes, don't --
like, just let him do his thing.
You know that he's thought about it.
He can talk circles around you as to why he made that choice.
So just know that he's right. -Yeah, just know he's --
-Just become something that I want to do myself.
And I want more people, maybe you guys
out in the audience can think about this too.
Next time someone questions you, just look at them like,
I'm right. [ Laughter ]
-Just do -- Yeah, exactly. -Just live our life like that.
-That's the way he does it, yeah.
-I think just live it like that, right?
-I heard you kept things super loose on the set.
-I did. -Because it was your --
it's your first movie you're directing.
I want to make sure everyone's having fun.
And having the best time. You used a hula hoop?
-Yeah, when things would get stressful,
I kept a hula hoop on set.
Just kind of move the energy around.
It was actually -- the votes were coming in
from the presidential election while we were on set.
I was hula hooping a lot. [ Laughter ]
A lot. -Getting a lot of exercise in.
-Mm-hmm, yeah. Didn't work, but I did it.
-Yeah. -And we also had ribbon dancers.
So our production meetings, all the department heads
had ribbon dancers.
-Well, since we can't really talk about "Avengers",
because really we can't.
I thought it could be kind of fun if we maybe --
[ cheers and applause ] Is that possible?
-Where are we going to do it? -Right here?
-Where are you going to go? -I know, I'm not sure.
We'll have to split it. Can I just get a practice round in?
Just because I don't think I can really do --
-No! -Oh, my gosh.
[ cheers and applause ] Hey, I'm doing it! Whoa!
Guys, here's Brie Larson in "Avengers: Endgame."
Take a look at this. That's the best I've ever done it!
-He's still got the stones, so --
-So let's get 'em. And use them to bring everyone back.
-Just like that? -Yeah, just like that.
-Even if there's a small chance that we can undo this,
I mean, we owe it to everyone who's not in this room to try.
-If we do this, how do we know it's going to end
any differently than it did before?
-Because before you didn't have me.
-Hey, new girl, everybody in this room
is about that superhero life.
And if you don't mind my asking,
where the hell have you been all this time?
-There are a lot of other planets in the universe
and unfortunately they didn't have you guys.
♪♪
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[ Sighs ]
[ Whoosh ]
[ Thud ] [ Sighs ]
-I like this one.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Brie Larson, everybody. -Yeah!