Well, Samuel L. Jackson has had enough of these “incels” who won’t stop bothering Brie Larson.
In a new Rolling Stone interview this week, the 74-year-old acting legend, who is best known for playing no-bulls**t, foul-mouthed tough guys on screen, talked about his friendship with the Captain Marvel star.
In it, he talked about how he and Larson, who is 33, became close friends before she got the lead part in the 2019 movie Captain Marvel, which has caused a lot of trouble.
The star from Django: Unchained says that the two of them became close because they both didn’t like making Kong: Skull Island in 2017.
Larson is said to have asked Jackson if it would be a good idea for her to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) after being offered the coveted part of Captain Marvel. This is because Jackson has played Nick Fury in the MCU since Iron Man came out in 2008.
“And I said, ‘Hell yeah! Let’s do it!'” But she’s not going to let any of that break her,” Jackson told Rolling Stone, referring to the huge amount of sexism Larson had to deal with online after she was named Captain Marvel.
Jackson then went after the men who had been unfairly picking on Larson, saying that Larson was “stronger” than people thought and that “”these incel dudes who hate strong women or the fact that she’s a feminist who has an opinion and says it? Everyone wants other people to be like them. She is who she is, and that is who she really is”.”
Larson has been a vocal supporter of women’s rights and viral movements like #MeToo. She has spoken out about feminism in the entertainment business and how the media seems to be mostly “white dudes.” In fact, she told Marie Claire in 2019 that she had made a conscious decision to make her press days “more inclusive” after noticing that reporters for her press junkets are often “overwhelmingly white men.”
She later told Kevin McCarthy from Fox 5: “What I’m trying to do is bring more places to the table. No one’s chair is going to be taken away. There aren’t less seats at the table; there are just more of them.
Some Marvel fans didn’t care, though, because they changed Brie Larson’s serious facial expressions in the Captain Marvel trailer to make her look like she was laughing. They also filled the movie’s Rotten Tomatoes page with horrible and sexist comments. The movie’s total score went down because of this.
I'm not RTing this asshole because it's what he wants. But it seems this dude's big issue with Captain Marvel is that the pretty lady won't just smile and look pretty like a good girl.#StopTellingCaptainMarvelToSmile pic.twitter.com/zxFCYxcUgJ
— Geek Girl Diva (@geekgirldiva) September 19, 2018
This year, the first trailer for The Marvels, which stars “Larson’s Captain Marvel and Iman Vellani’s Ms. Marvel, the first” Muslim character in the MCU, got the most dislikes of any MCU trailer on YouTube.
In the past, fans of Larson have said that her male Marvel co-stars sat back and didn’t say anything about her action or openly support it.
Obviously, you don’t need that when Samuel L. Jackson is on your side.