Brie Larson
Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist
NBC News
4.5 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Willie Guys here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. |
| 0:05.7 | My thanks for clicking and listening along this week. |
| 0:08.1 | Got a good one for you. |
| 0:09.4 | My guest, Academy Award-winning actress, Bre Larson. |
| 0:13.6 | Bre and I got together here in New York City about 48 hours before the release of Captain |
| 0:18.6 | Marvel, where she plays Captain Marvel. |
| 0:22.2 | It's a historic film because it's the Marveling Universe's first female lead superhero film. |
| 0:29.2 | And a big day for Bre as well. |
| 0:31.8 | You of course know her from room, the harrowing, incredible performance she gave that earned |
| 0:36.5 | her the Oscar for best actress a few years ago. |
| 0:39.8 | And this is something else entirely, playing the superhero, the lead role in the superhero |
| 0:44.4 | movie. |
| 0:45.4 | She underwent a big physical transformation. |
| 0:47.3 | You'll hear her talk about that. |
| 0:48.6 | She trained for nine months, twice a day, pushing jeeps up hills, deadlifting, doing things |
| 0:54.7 | like that, things that made me tired just hearing about them. |
| 0:57.7 | She also had to learn to be an Air Force pilot because Captain Marvel previously was an |
| 1:02.9 | Air Force pilot. |
| 1:04.3 | So Bre went up in an F-16 on a very messy ride that she will describe in some great detail. |
| 1:10.7 | Little weak on the stomach, tough too when you're doing simulated dog fights and you're |
| 1:14.5 | not quite ready for that. |
| 1:15.8 | I'll let her tell you the story. |
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