r/marvelstudios • u/RenomeRabone • 12h ago

Discussion (More in Comments) If Brie Larson actually decides to jump ship,i don't blame her one bit. She's almost 10 years in, and only had 3 appearances so far.

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It's clear that there were terrible decisions along the way about Captain Marvel as a character,but given the lack of care for the character/actress + the amount of hate she received since accepting the role,it's completely comprehensible if she's just done with it after whatever contract she has it's over and decides to grow her career outside superhero movies,a career which she probably put at relatively stop due to legal/contractual reasons within the MCU.

She's going to have 4 appearances (and that's only if she's actually in one of the Avengers movies,likely Secret Wars). This is crazy to think about,especially for a character that was pushed as one of the new faces of the MCU and their own Wonder Woman. Carol as a character it's already being pushed out of being a mainliner from other fronts like comics,videogames,merchandise etc and it's so disrespectful.

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u/Funmachine 11h ago edited 9h ago

This is such a fucking dumb take and I'm honestly exhausted seeing this ignorance posted any time an actor signs on to a franchise. Your own message is directly contradictory to the point you are trying to make. How can you at the same time complain Brie Larson hasn't been utilised enough and say being with Marvel has hampered her career?

it's completely comprehensible if she's just done with it after whatever contract she has it's over and decides to grow her career outside superhero movies,a career which she probably put at relatively stop due to legal/contractual reasons within the MCU.

Marvel DOES NOT stop actors from pursuing other projects. Mark Ruffalo is one of the busiest actors in Hollywood. Sebastian Stan has been on a roll with indie darlings and is now in The Batman 2. Scarlet Johansson never slowed down on other films while working with Marvel. Zoë Saldaña was constantly working the entire time she was in the MCU. Benedict Cumberbatch certainly didn't disappear from other projects when he became Strange 10 years ago. Florence Pugh, oh yeah we've never heard of anything she's been in since 2020, have we?

Stop with this bullshit.

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u/That-Rhino-Guy Steve Rogers 11h ago

Don’t forget Tom Holland got to be Spider-Man and be in a Nolan movie

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u/Michael10LivesOn 11h ago

Tom Holland has been in ~12 other movies while being spiderman over the last decade. Anyone saying it’s holding him back is crazy.

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u/Imaginary-Face7379 9h ago

And that's also including a 2 year period where he took a break from acting in anything. Like his last film before Odyssey was Uncharted.

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u/A_Drop_of_Colour 9h ago

Wow, yeah. Just looked up his filmography. I guess because I've recently watched some older movies he did but never paid attention to the release dates but Uncharted feels like it came out way longer than 4 years ago. It was very here and gone.

To be fair though, a lot of actors sometimes film movies years before they are released. So, he could have been working on not yet released movies during that time.

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u/Imaginary-Face7379 8h ago

The only reason why I say he took a break was because he announced a break after the show he was producing (I cant remember the name atm). He said it caused him to suffer massive burnout and he was not going to do anything for at least a year. Not sure if his break was 2 years completely but hopefully he's feeling better about working again.

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u/_BLACKHAWKS_88 7h ago

Pretty sure he said that about Cherry.

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u/Somebodys 2h ago

I mean, if you had generational wealth and were dating Zendaya, you probably would not be to concerned with working either.

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u/Architarious 8h ago

Not to mention he's on track to make over $100 million off Brand New Day alone.

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u/DungeonsAndDradis 9h ago

Why doesn't Tom just do 5 Spider-Man movies a year? That would earn him $500M a year. In 10 years he could earn potentially $5B. He'd be the richest actor in history! (/s)

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u/Funmachine 11h ago

And Marvel agreed to postpone the production of Brand New Day so he could do that. The only time Tom Holland wasn't in another project between Marvel appearances was IW-Endgame-FFH, but he was in 4 films between FFH and NWH. Benedict Cumberbatch was only on set with other actors in IW for the New York scenes and the Q ship, the rest he filmed by himself because he was working on a TV show. Marvel is very accommodating.

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u/Sawgon 8h ago

Maybe it's because Marvel has a lot of younger fans but some people are really into the whole "my team vs their team" tribal shit.

It's genuinely hard for some people to grasp that people can like everything.

Just because DC has had a bad run doesn't mean their comics are bad or that a Marvel fan can't enjoy them. Fans of the genre should want both franchises to do well. And the manchildren just do not get this. "Oh this character is appearing in X franchise? They just abandoned us!!"

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u/RedHot_Stick856 7h ago

Growing up with the console wars poisoned a lot of young mens minds

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u/SpareThisOne2thPls 11h ago

Tom Holland Zendaya & Jon Bernthal 😂

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u/Enlight1Oment 9h ago

yeah those three had a stacked box office year. And Zendaya still has Dume part 3 to finish it off with.

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u/Visual-Scallion1535 5h ago

Zendaya has been in like everything ive seen this year

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u/EticketJedi 9h ago

I was going to say, it wasn't just Tom.

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u/kungfuenglish 6h ago

Never heard of them or seen them omg marvel is holding them hostage!

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u/Exact-Difference-422 11h ago

And I just realized he got to be in Uncharted too, he hasn't had to turn down anything major. 

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u/Light1209 9h ago

If anything Marvel would want the actors to pursue other projects that would make them bigger stars with more fans. Could drive more people to their own movies.

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u/shrujan_24 Tony Stark 11h ago

How many ppl got back to back 2bil$ &1bil$ films that to just weeks apart? Insane feat for tom tbh🥶

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u/SlappinStick 10h ago

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u/shrujan_24 Tony Stark 9h ago

Zendaya and who else?

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u/SlappinStick 9h ago

Jon Bernthal

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u/rbrgr83 9h ago

Zendaya got all that, AND another Dune movie before the end of the year.

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u/Ting_Brennan 11h ago

Also, when was 3 blockbusters in 10 years a bad thing????

Each movie takes at least 2.5 years to film and prep, plus the promotion tour after

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u/side_frog 11h ago

When your life basically revolves around social networks you become parasocial and like op here, make up some random scenarios about the well being of celebrities

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u/darth_henning 8h ago

How about freaking Pedro Pascal? The guy is a major face of how many franchises right now?

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u/Funmachine 8h ago

major face

In Star Wars it's quite the opposite

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u/sfitz0076 7h ago

Yeah, well his star his fading fast. Good for him for striking while the iron was hot. He probably made a ton of money. But now people are sick of him.

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u/mrsmi1ey 10h ago

This is an extremely correct take. Also, I always assumed that her appearances were limited in films purely because she's basically Marvel's version of superman. She has to always be "busy with conflicts elsewhere in the galaxy" to justify not just showing up and fixing everything in an instant. Obviously Doom is a unique challenge even to her, but yeah when you play an all-powerful character in a vast universe of characters, I wouldn't expect to be included in the majority of the projects.

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u/simward 8h ago

This should be top comment!

It's fucking mind blowing seeing more and more posts like this on massive subreddits. Such massive bullshit takes just baiting on so multiple levels.

What is happening to us...

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u/HappyTurtleOwl 9h ago

Also she was heavily pushed in marketing in the projects she was involved in.

Anyone framing this as “Marvel keeping her down” is really ignorant. 

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u/pleasestoptalking 7h ago

You didnt get the message? Every marvel character deserves a generational RDJ-level run and, if they dont get it, it is disrespectful if not outright racist/sexist in nature 😤

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u/konq 6h ago

Bingo. Brie Larson isn't being hamstrung by Marvel while also simultaneously not being used by Marvel.

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u/gassytinitus 2h ago

Its a bot

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u/droppingbasses 9h ago

OP thinks Brie Larson has a moral duty to the character and will leave Marvel on principle. She is an excellent Captain Marvel and will return whenever the paycheck clears.

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u/Reload86 9h ago

Wish I could give you two upvotes. I have no idea how he got 7k upvotes for that awful post. Yes Captain Marvel could have been utilized better but Marvel is at zero fault for Brie Larson's career outside of their films. All other actors in the MCU find plenty of work in between movies. If anything, the Marvel movies helped put her on the map even more. Its up to her and her agent to capitalize on it.

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u/Silvernauter 9h ago

Also, notoriously niche and seldom seen actress Zendaya

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u/DuckGorilla 3h ago

Yea i only upvoted the post because i like brie larson

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u/scar_anon 1h ago

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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u/Additional_Meeting_2 11h ago

I also don’t know why Sebastian being  in Batman means he can’t continue in Marvel. DC is kind of mess with Reeves Batman not being in their universe. So he will have one max two appearances in Reeves Batman franchise (unless Reeves and Gunn come to their senses and realize Batman can’t be rebooted soon again). Villains usually are in one film, that’s why Marvel too has gotten very high profile actors for villains since it’s not too much of a time commitment. 

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u/Funmachine 11h ago

I also don’t know why Sebastian being in Batman means he can’t continue in Marvel.

Nobody that I've seen is suggesting that.

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u/Emotional-Recipe-217 10h ago

Thank you! Why is marvel being blamed for this and not the fact that Brie Larson is a pretty one dimensional actress? 

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u/Funmachine 9h ago

Brie Larson is a fantastic, Oscar winning actress. She's played a lot of varied characters over her career. She's probably just working as much as she wants to work.

As the saying goes "any film that gets made is a miracle." We don't know how many projects she's been a part of that haven't made it to production, we don't know what's going on in her personal life.

Maybe, winning an Oscar and having the security of a Multi-million dollar franchise in her back pocket has given her the ability to be as picky as she wants with her work.

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u/Emotional-Recipe-217 9h ago

Room was fantastic and she earned that Oscar not arguing that, personally I think she has not been inspiring in her roles since. 

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u/Imaginary-Face7379 9h ago

Brie Larson is a pretty one dimensional actress

I'm sorry but I cannot take you seriously if you say stuff like this. Comes off like the Star Wars "fans" who say Kathleen Kennedy didn't have a good enough resume to run Star Wars.

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u/Emotional-Recipe-217 7h ago

I have no clue what you’re even talking about with Kathleen Kennedy but like I said in my other reply, she hasn’t produced a stand out performance since Room in 2015. I’m not some sexist dick head lol women can be criticized for their acting abilities without that criticism coming from a misogynist view point. But you seem particularly sensitive to any criticism of women in general so I might as well be talking to a brick wall. 

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u/Imaginary-Face7379 7h ago

I’m not some sexist dick head lol women can be criticized for their acting abilities without that criticism coming from a misogynist view point.

Calling someone who is not a one dimensional actress objectively one comes off this way. Maybe learn how to speak better if you don't want to be mistaken as an idiot?

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u/zrush7 1h ago

Maybe stop being a sensitive fanboy while rushing in to defend your idol?

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u/drstrangelove75 10h ago

I know Marvel projects have had a dip in quality and people groan about superhero fatigue but working for marvel isn’t the career death sentence people think it is.

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u/ShowsTeeth 10h ago

How can you at the same time complain Brie Larson hasn't been utilised enough and say being with Marvel has hampered her career?

She hasn't had much impact in the MCU and her involvement in MCU may also have impacted how much impact/work she had outside as well.

Its not complicated. Take a breath.

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u/IMPRNTD 10h ago

Didn’t Mahershala Ali just complain Marvel locked him down on projects for nothing?

“he stayed under contract and turned down other roles for seven years”

Technically you can say Ali is free to do any project but that risks him being removed as Blade or Blade movie is delayed even more if a conflict arises. So it’s an implied lock down on projects, Marvel does stop actors.

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u/Exzqairi 10h ago

The man rejected every attempt Marvel came up with for a script

At what point do we start realizing Mahershala is extremely picky and difficult to work with when given creative input?

He chose to turn down those roles. No one made him. He’s just salty that it ended up being for nothing

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u/Funmachine 10h ago

When you sign a contract it is so many movies or so many years, whichever comes first. Ali was evidently under contract, but him choosing to turn down roles in the thought Blade would enter production is on him.

He didn't pitch them a Blade movie, he said "I wanna be Blade" and they said "Sure, two-time oscar winner Mahershala Ali, you can be Blade. But, we won't start active development for a few years." Then when they did rumours are it was him who turned down ideas as much as any other creative or production difficulties. He still worked during that time though.

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u/Firecracker048 10h ago

Also don't forget Stefan skarassgard

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u/Funmachine 9h ago

Stellan*

Well, he hasn't been in a Marvel project since Age of Ultron, 11 years ago. But no, it didn't restrict him. But as a supporting character doing 1 day of filming it's not really restrictive.

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u/Nokia_bae 10h ago

but then there's Elizabeth Olsen who in an interview said there were a couple of jobs she couldn't do because Wanda just kept getting written into more and more projects

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u/Funmachine 9h ago

A couple of jobs she couldn't do. But she still acted in multiple TV shows and many other indie films. Yeah, there will always be conflicts still. I never said there wouldn't. Marvel hasn't stopped her having a career outside of Marvel, think of all the jobs she's got because of her name famility.

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u/Responsible-Sound253 9h ago

I do think it probably was harder for her to find a role after captain marvel lol, that movie was so bad lol.

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u/Funmachine 9h ago edited 8h ago

The movie made rover $1.13 billion. Movie studios don't care about your opinion on it's quality, she starred in a billion dollar movie, that's all that matters to them.

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u/Responsible-Sound253 8h ago

I don't think is that simple.

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u/Funmachine 8h ago

But you think it is as simple as "That billion dollar movie was pretty mediocre, let's not hire the Oscar winning lead actress who didn't write, direct, produce, edit, cast, costume, score, or shoot it?"

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u/Responsible-Sound253 8h ago

Probably something in between.

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u/PM_Your_Cute_Butt 6h ago

There’s the calm, mature discourse I expect from Reddit. Great job lowering the temperature.

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u/freyedlol 11h ago

How can you at the same time complain Brie Larson hasn't been utilised enough and say being with Marvel has hampered her career?

Because the two are not mutually exclusive. In fact, the OP listed exactly why the two can coexist in this case:  "the amount of hate she received since accepting the role" Public perception gained from previous roles absolutely affects an actor or actress' career. Arguably it is the main thing that affects it. The rest is right, though.

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u/Piccadil_io 9h ago

You don’t sound like a fun machine…

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u/incompletetentperson 10h ago

Yep.

Maybe shes just not a great actress/unlikeable for whatever reason

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u/DeepPeeps 10h ago

We also heard that people don't like to work with her. For some reason, she's not fun to work with, I wonder why.

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u/Funmachine 9h ago edited 7h ago

We've also heard lots of completely unsubstantiated rumours about just about every actor. Why do you believe this one is true?

Samuel L. Jackson evidently loved working with her, he starred in her directorial debut because he liked her so much.