Fast And Fury

Powerful. Mysterious. Beautiful. And that’s just the cat! Inside CAPTAIN MARVEL’s purrfect ’90s team-up.

- Devan Coggan

She’s an all-powerful Air Force pilot from outer space. He’s a government desk jockey with zero extraterrestrial experience. This intergalactic odd couple form the backbone of Captain Marvel (out March 8), the 1990s-set film that follows Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), and an orange cat named Goose as they try to stop invading aliens from treating Planet Earth as their next battlefield.

It’s a playful, trash-talking relationship based in reality. Since starring together in 2017’s Kong: Skull Island and Larson’s directorial debut, Unicorn Store (premiering April 5 on Netflix), Larson and Jackson have become the kind of buddies who lean on each other’s shoulders in interviews and finish each other’s sentences. “Marvel was like, ‘Is there anybody that you’d wanna do [the movie] with?’ ” Larson recalls. “And I was like, ‘Please. I need to be with my pal. Don’t let me do it alone!’ ”

Larson and Jackson sat down with EW to talk aliens, Jedi masters, and the magnitude of Marvel fame.

Brie, when you first signed on to Captain Marvel, did Sam give you any advice about joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

Brie Larson No, he won’t give me advice! I even asked him. He asked to go to dinner with me the night before I was leaving to go to the [2016] Oscars, and I thought he was gonna give me some sage wisdom. At the end of dinner, he had said nothing about it, and I was like, “Well, aren’t you gonna tell me some piece of advice?” He’s like, “No. Are you gonna give me advice?” I’m like, “No.” He was like, “You’re fine. Enjoy it.” It was the same thing with [Captain Marvel].