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Brie Larson has one mantra in Captain Marvel: “Higher. Further. Faster.”

So when the Oscar-winning actress was tapped to play the Marvel heroine, she did just that by hitting the gym every day, seven days a week.

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“I started training nine months before we started shooting,” Larson says. “Through this, I was able to really get in touch with my body in a way I’d never allowed myself to in the past.”

But Larson was unaware that even though she was playing the strongest hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she didn’t need to do all her own stunts.

“I started the stunt training three months before we started shooting. It’s every day for two hours a day. I just thought that’s what you were supposed to do. I didn’t know that most people don’t do their own stunts. I just thought, ‘Well, I’m an introvert with asthma. I gotta get my s— together and be able to do this.'”

It wasn’t until Larson completed her first fight sequence that she found out she didn’t need to actually do it all.

“They told me that no one actually does it all, but it’s really cool that you did,” Larson says, laughing. “I was completely bruised and the next morning I felt like I had ridden every roller-coaster and drank a bottle of whiskey the night before, but … I’ve done a lot of (the stunts) and you’ll be able to see that.”

So Captain Marvel is being billed as more powerful than the fearsome Thanos (who bested the Avengers in last year’sInfinity War). But just how strong is she?

“She’s crazy strong,” Larson says, chuckling. “She can shoot photon blasts from her hands. She can also absorb energy. Is there anything else that I’m missing? I feel like that might be it.”

Larson pauses for a beat.

“Oh, yeah, she can fly too.”

Captain Marvel opens in theatres this Thursday.

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