Is this bad for Brie Larson?

In 2016, She doesn’t know who Captain Marvel is. Well, she does, but she’s thinking of Billy Badson. Basically, should you know a character before hand instead before playing that role?

... Ok.

Nah, she acknowledge the real Captain Marvel. Most people don't know Carol is CM she only got that title like 5 years ago.

Not necessarily. The MCU has a good coaching squad

Charlie Cox did not know Daredevil was blind when he was offered the role and called his agent after a friend of his pointed it out. And I would guess that the Guardians actors all knew nothing about their roles comic counterparts. Heck, I'm not even sure RDJ knew anything about Iron Man given that he was not that big a name prior to Civil War and the MCU.

From the moment she was offered the part till filming started she had plenty of time to read her comics.

Vigo Mortensen had never heard of LotR before he was offered to play Aragorn, but at that point he read the books. Actors always prepare for their roles.

lul, mad.

@the_living_tribunal_24: Nah, you?

@the_kidd: nah, what i meant to say was that it was mad(hilarious/savage) how you just dropped that.

First of all, Billy Batson is Captain Marvel.

Second, a great deal of actors are not familiar with the source material, and it's not their job to. An actors job is to bring to life a Directors vision. It's the Director's, Producer's, and Studio's job to cater the the audience and fans.

Third, why even make this thread? Honestly, what where your intentions?

Naa I'm sure they research the characters once they get the role

No. This means nothing.

Yea a lot of actors do research after they get cast in there roles.

No, not really. Captain Marvel is not a well-known character, I don't blame her at all for confusing her character with Shazam.

As far as this movie goes, I think there are many reasons to have doubt in it already, but this is not one of them.

This was from before she was cast.

@mrmonster: I was agreeing with what others said about this not being bad. Rereading my comment I should have phrased myself better.

@jashro44: Sorry, when you said "yea" I thought you were agreeing with the Op. I must have misunderstood you.

What does it matter at this point? The movie is already made.

This is incorrect. Fans can cry about the name change all they want but its Shazam and has been for more than half a decade

It's like a contest "find the most stupidly unnecessary reason to complain about Captain Marvel" every day.

She's an actress, she's not a comic nerd who spends her life on ComicVine criticizing others who are out there earning money and being successful.

In fact, I'm impressed she even knew about the DC's Captain Marvel.

Most actors dont know anything about their characters especially ones who aren't popular like CM

How am I “complaing” about anything, I simply asked a question. On not just one specifically on CM. for CBM actors in general.

no need to get mad at me lol.

Why you guys are always overreacting

Okay, this is silly. She heard what her fans wanted but hadn't heard of the character before so she researched the character, what is the freaking problem?

Direct me to where I said there was a problem. I was wondering if an actor should know their character before hand or not,

@rem: I wasn't going after you, sorry that I didn't make that clear. The video seems to imply there's a problem though, wouldn't you say?

I’d agree with that.

You think most of the actors had any idea about the characters they were going to portray before being cast? I somehow really doubt that.

That reminds me of that actress from the Ant-Man movie who was asked which one is her favourite MCU heroine and she said Wonder Woman lol

It's not bad for her. It happened because many people don't know that Carol is actually called Captain Marvel now. Most people know her by Ms. Marvel whcih to be honest should be her name.

Poor Billy got his code name that he had first stolen from him. It'd be sad if it weren't so ridiculous.

Well, at least she acknowledged the real CM

No. It isn't bad for her, especially in this case where Carol is not that well known.

It's not bad. It's okay. :D

Lol She mistook Shazam with Captain Marvel. What a fail!

It doesn't matter.