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Playing a Marvel superhero is no joke – just ask Brie Larson.

The 29-year-old is set to make her MCU debut in March as Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel, in which she plays a former Air Force fighter pilot embibed with superhuman strength and flight.

Meaning, she needed to get swole.

And after nine months of intense training, Brie was so ripped she was able to push a jeep up a hill.


Yeah, well, we opened a jam jar today with no help, so there.

Brie trained for nine months to play Captain Marvel (Picture: Marvel)

Speaking on The Ellen Show, the 29-year-old explained: ‘This is a new thing, I used to be super not athletic. Then like a year ago, I just got really beefy. I trained for nine months and then was able to do crazy things, I could deadlift 225 pounds by the end of it.’



Brie worked with trainer to the stars Jason Walsh, and told Ellen DeGeneres: ‘The ongoing joke with him, because Captain Marvel can move planets, is that I was like “I just want to be able to push your car, if I could just push your jeep, I’d feel like I was ready”. So it happened. There was a day I did it.’

Ellen showed the evidence – with Brie pushing a jeep (carrying one passenger and a full tank of petrol) up a hill with relative ease.

Samuel L Jackson, who plays Nick Fury in the MCU, previously bigged up Brie’s strength and ability to move massive amounts of metal.

Speaking to Screen Rant, he said: ‘She’s like five percent body fat now. She used to send me workout videos, which were like, crazy dope workout videos. The first one she sent me, she was lifting… like a hundred pounds. She was doing this thing with the waist-lift, about a hundred pounds.

‘The last one she sent me was 350. She does chin-ups. And she sent me a video of her pushing a Jeep up a hill. It’s pretty amazing stuff. She’s made a distinct transformation that I don’t think a lot of people would be willing to do. It’s a huge commitment to do stuff like that.’

Brie will also appear in Avengers: Endgame, and as she filmed those scenes before Captain Marvel, she’s going to extreme lengths to avoid spoiling the plot while on the press tour.

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