Captain Marvel getting told by a man to smile more isn’t just something that happens on social media.
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Echoing an incident last year in which a Twitter account shared “fixed” Captain Marvel posters Photoshopped to make Brie Larson’s superhero character smile, the film itself actually features a scene where the hero is told to “smile” by a man on a motorcycle.
Speaking to Yahoo! Entertainment, Larson revealed that art-imitates-life moment was a coincidence, explaining, “That was in the movie already.
“That’s just a depiction of the female experience. That’s just what it’s like. So it didn’t really bother me that much when I saw that that was the reaction because that’s just how it goes.”
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Larson continued, “It happens. This is part of why art that depicts the female experience is so important because on one hand, for women and girls it allows us to go, ‘Oh, I have that experience, too.’ And those that aren’t in our bodies can go, ‘Wait, that happens to you? We’ve got to do better.’”
The film’s co-director Anna Boden also spoke about the scene, telling Yahoo!, “It was always in the script. It’s not an uncommon thing for women to hear. So it doesn’t surprise me at all that it was in social media. I think a lot of women can relate to that moment.”
