Is Brie Larson tanking Captain Marvel with her comments?

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Nevertheless, the “Captain Marvel” star still wants dudes to put down their pens and tape recorders. She made a noninclusive point about inclusion last summer when she argued that male movie reviewers should shut up about “A Wrinkle in Time” because it wasn’t made for them.

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About a year ago,” Larson explains in the interview, “I started paying attention to what my press days looked like and the critics reviewing movies, and noticed it appeared to be overwhelmingly white male.”

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 don’t want to hear what a white man has to say about ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’ I want to hear what a woman of color, a biracial woman has to say about the film,” Larson said during an acceptance speech. Never mind that “A Wrinkle in Time” was a film that everyone desperately wanted to like but was about as close to the book as Earth is to Madeleine L'Engle’s planet Camazotz. Even a white man could see that

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The latest Captain Marvel opening weekend box office projection is significantly lower than previous projections coming in at $100 million.

Deadline reports ” most early industry estimates are certain that it’s headed to $100M.” They do note that it could be even lower with one of their sources telling them, “give or take $20M

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In fact, she’s stated that she sees the film as her “form of activism.” It’s not a multi-million dollar action adventure film, it’s some kind of activism. She would also state that Marvel approached her and stated they wanted to make Captain Marvel a “big feminist movie.” Larson also appeared in a video where she insinuates the patriarchy is somehow oppressing her despite being reportedly paid $5 million to play Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel.

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