captain marvel actor gemma chan believes the superhero genre is ahead of the curve when it comes to diversity and female representationthe actor who plays the sniper minnerva in the brie larsonled first female standalone marvel film said it is about time that such a movie saw the light of dayi think the source has been quite ahead of the game when it comes to diversity superhero films seem to have been slightly ahead of the general filmmaking im surprised its taken this long to get a female centered marvel superhero filmits about time im glad that this film is happening i think just by getting it out in the world we can talk about it to death i think by just seeing the response from young boys and girls it kind of hopefully speaks for itself chan toldthe actor says she was approached for the role in a straightforward kind of manneri just got asked if id be interested in doing it and i had to go on tape with some dummy slides they obviously werent really from the script you never know if youre going to hear back she addschan who achieved global fame after starring in crazy rich asians said she signed on the film but never got to read the scripti heard that they were keen and i skyped with the directors and producers they pitched it to me i signed on and i didnt get to read the script it was a bit of a leap of faith it all happened quite quickly i trained for less than three months the actor said strength and sensitivity are not exclusively male or female traitsi think we see it much more as a spectrum now and i think you can tap into either you are actually at your strongest when you have that flexibility so if you are just strong and brutal thats actually a weakness chan saidalso featuring samuel l jackson jude law annette bening ben mendelsohncaptain marvel hits indian screens on march 8