It might seem like Brie Larson has enough on her plate with a successful acting career and a prominent role in the MCU as Captain Marvel, but during the pandemic lockdown, she decided to set up a YouTube channel as well. Since her first video nine months ago, Larson has uploaded cooking tutorials, workout routines, and, of course, a smattering of gaming content too. The most recent addition to her channel sees her playing the hit battle royale game Fortnite alongside her Avengers: Endgame co-star, Tessa Thompson.
Larson is no stranger to video games, being a self-confessed gaming nerd from a young age and a huge fan of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the Legend of Zelda series, and, of course, Fortnite. By her own admission, she's "lost a lot of her life to [Fortnite]," having crested the 300-hour mark a few months into the pandemic, and so it seemed wholly appropriate to share that love with a friend and fellow thespian, Thompson.
Although Larson ended up doing all the actual playing herself on her Switch, showing off a variety of skins and other cosmetics including, naturally, the Captain Marvel skin released last year, she encouraged Thompson to tell her where to go and what to do, and so fairly soon two objectives were set: win a match, and tame a wolf. Over the course of the ten-minute video, Larson lays out the basics of the game for Thompson and, although she gets ingloriously dispatched a few times by other players and an errant wolf, the pair's goals are both eventually achieved.
It's a wonderfully wholesome video with the two chatting casually while Larson roams the map and deals out death, and Thompson seems genuinely invested in watching her friend play the game: at one point she reacts with muted shock to finding out that four players had already died seconds into the match, rounding it out with a quiet "Oh no...RIP." With that said, within a few minutes, she's encouraging Larson to "perish him [sic]" when she comes across an AI-controlled enemy, so the bloodlust of Fortnite is clearly quick to take hold.
This is certainly not the last we're likely to see of Larson's gaming content. Earlier in the pandemic, she uploaded a video showcasing her Animal Crossing: New Horizons island while answering questions from fans, and last year she was the face of a Nintendo marketing push for the Switch in the run-up to Christmas, so there's likely plenty more to come.
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