Brie Larson is dedicated to making the “Captain Marvel” press tour as inclusive as possible. The Oscar winner chose Keah Brown to be her interviewer for a recent interview with Marie Claire. “Nobody usually wants to take a chance on a disabled journalist,” Brown said, describing the honor as the “biggest opportunity” of her career. Larson hopes to raise inclusive voices by becoming more active in deciding her press opportunities.

“About a year ago, I started paying attention to what my press days looked like and the critics reviewing movies, and noticed it appeared to be overwhelmingly white male,” she explained.

There are statistics that prove it. A research by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism looked at 19,559 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, a movie review aggregation site, and discovered that males wrote 77.8% of them. The “Top Critics” subsections – or reviewers who write for large journals – were similarly 76 percent male, according to the survey.

“So, I spoke to 
Dr. Stacy Smith at the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, who put together a study to confirm that. Moving forward, I decided to make sure my press days were more inclusive. After speaking with you, the film critic Valerie Complex and a few other women of colour, it sounded like across the board they weren’t getting the same opportunities as others,” she told Brown. “When I talked to the facilities that weren’t providing it, they all had different excuses.”

The actress also mentioned that now that she’s a part of the Marvel world, she’s been granted a lot more power, and she intends to utilize it to assist people, just like a real superhero.

Larson stated, “I want to go out of my way to connect the dots. It just took me using the power that I’ve been given now as Captain Marvel. [The role] comes with all these privileges and powers that make me feel uncomfortable because I don’t really need them… It’s a by-product of the profession and a sign of the times. But any uncomfortableness I feel is balanced by the knowledge that it gives me the ability 
to advocate for myself and others.”

Last year, Larson made news for criticizing the gender disparity in the film industry. Larson described the lack of equitable representation among reviewers as a “issue that’s been bubbling” when accepting an award at the Crystal + Lucy Awards.

“Am I saying I hate white dudes?” Larson said. “No, I’m not … [but if] you make the movie that is a love letter to women of color, there is an insanely low chance a woman of color will have a chance to see your movie and review your movie.”

As Larson has previously stated, there is a greater prejudice in the field of film review. She made a stir last year when she suggested that the varied reviews for Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time had something to do with the reviewers’ age and ethnicity.

“I do not need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn’t work for him about Wrinkle in Time,” she said. “It wasn’t made for him. I want to know what it meant to women of colour, to biracial women, to teen women of colour, to teens that are biracial.”