Brie Larson was determined to make The Marvels 'joyful' despite trolling

The Marvels director Nia DaCosta speaks to Yahoo UK about navigating making the superhero film in spite of criticism from online trolls.

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00:00 toxic fan base. Obviously Brie Larson in particular has had to deal with that quite a bit since

00:03 she was the first female lead superhero for Marvel. I wonder, when you were working with

00:08 her, how did you find working with her? Did that kind of impact her at all in terms of

00:13 her performance or anything like that?

00:15 Oh no, I mean Brie's awesome. Brie is so prepared, she's so focused. She really wanted the two

00:20 other women in the film to have a good experience. I wanted it to be a great experience. We talked

00:25 a lot about how joyful this should be. We're making a superhero movie, we're making a comic

00:29 book film, we should be having fun. And then Marvel, their job is to get the movie that

00:36 they want. And if they want female leads in their films, they're going to get female leads.

00:41 And if they want the film to be like this, that's what it's going to be. So it was just

00:45 really great to just, we both knew we were, yes, important parts of this process, but

00:48 we're just a small part of a very big machine. And we went into it just trying to have a

00:54 good time and do our best work.

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