In the run up to the release of Thor: Ragnarok, Tessa Thompson stated on several occasions that a number of Marvel’s female stars – including Brie Larson (Captain Marvel), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) and Pom Klementieff (Mantis) – had cornered Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige to lobby for an all-female team-up movie.
Well, appearing at the Tribeca Film Festival to promote her new movie Little Woods, the Valkyrie actress has now revealed that the reports were blown out of proportion, and that fans may not want to get to excited about the prospect of Marvel bringing its female heroes together:
“That was kind of an offhand thing, and then the press really ran with it,” said Thompson. “The extent to which the press ran with it is also an expression of what ripe a time it is for something like that. That people are hungry for it, that people are interested in it. I think, regardless, Marvel is making their Black Widow movie and they are doing Captain Marvel and the female characters in the big team-up movies tend to be, at least for me, some of the strongest elements.”
While the news is sure to be disappointing to some fans, many of those characters play a prominent role in Avengers: Infinity War, while Larson’s Captain Marvel and Evangeline Lilly’s The Wasp are set to join in the fun in next year’s Avengers 4. So between those, Ant-Man and the Wasp and Captain Marvel, Marvel’s female heroes are certainly going to find themselves firmly in the spotlight over the next year.
Via Observer
