'I don’t understand how you could think that a certain type of person isn’t allowed to be a superhero.' —Brie Larson
,"I remember when I was coming to this project that I, Brian, had kind of lost faith in humanity, just looking at all the things that we’ve been through and just what the images of Black men were and how we’re being portrayed and how the power was taken from us, the lack of power or feeling powerful...what I really loved the most about Phastos is that through all of that — him being eternal, him never being able to die — he still chose love.
He also praised director Chloé Zhao for not giving him weight loss requirements for the role. He said,"To be a Black man, to have someone look at you and say, 'We want you exactly the way you are,' is unlike anything that I’ve ever felt. It just triggered me to be an 11-year-old kid who is watching these superhero movies, and not ever seeing anyone like me reflected.
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