Near the beginning of Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) tells the Avengers they have a chance to kill Thanos “because before, you didn’t have me.” James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) rebukes her for sounding cocky, saying: “Hey, new girl – everybody in this room is about that superhero life.”

But did that frostiness mirror real life? Rumors abound that Larson and the Avengers cast did not get along. If you do a Google search on Larson and Avengers, you get results like “Brie Larson avengers cast fight.” Over on YouTube, you get “Brie Larson hated by cast.”

As is the case with so many rumors, this one doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Here’s what we found when we took a closer look.

Did the ‘Avengers’ cast like Brie Larson?

When Larson was announced as Captain Marvel in 2016, she was greeted with much fanfare. The crowd at San Diego Comic-Con erupted into cheers. The actress’ career was rising fast.

Earlier that year, she had won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Room, which would make her the first Oscar-winner to front a Marvel movie. She already had blockbuster credibility too, having starred in the hit Kong Skull Island that same year, so acting around green screens would be nothing new to her.

But soon there were rumblings that all was not well in Marvel-land. According to Gossip Cop, an “insider” told the tabloid OK that Larson’s success had gone to her head. The person said: “Because she had a rough childhood, she’s been touted as a rags-to-riches story, and now she believes her own hype. Most of the time she comes off as rude with a total ‘me first’ attitude.”

Did Brie Larson and Don Cheadle get along in ‘Avengers: Endgame’?

An Entertainment tonight interview with Larson, Cheadle and Chris Hemsworth only fueled the rumor. When asked what it was like joining the team, Larson said it was a challenge because she shot Avengers: Endgame before she shot Captain Marvel, so she wasn’t always sure what her character was or where the story was going.

“It was just kind of finding our way, but it was a good group of people to figure it out with, right guys?” she says early in the interview, playfully elbowing Hemsworth and Cheadle. Some people have heard Cheadle say “Don’t touch me.”

But almost immediately after that, the interviewer asks Cheadle what it was like for a newcomer. Cheadle had been one himself, taking over for Terrence Howard, who played the same part in the first Iron Man.

“There’s definitely a hazing period,” he answered. “I think I’m still in it,” Larson said. Referring to the scene where their characters butt heads in Endgame, Cheadle said, “It’s good because we actually get to play with that.”

Cheadle ended up tweeting directly to the rumor-mongers: “whoever you are, you’re reading in. take a break from your detective work. we’re all good. hope you enjoy the movie.”

Do Brie Larson and Scarlett Johansson get along?

Certainly, everybody is happy now that Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame are both enormous hits, with both making over $1 billion worldwide. A look at other interviews with the Avengers: Endgame cast shows them literally cheering for Larson. Mark Ruffalo said, “There’s a whole new era opening up in the world, and Brie’s leading the way.”

It’s not just money driving happiness. Samuel L. Jackson “hates” Larson so much that he’s worked with her several times. And that’s not just in the Marvel movies. They also worked together on Kong: Skull Island and Netflix’s Unicorn Store, which Larson directed.

If there’s any “animosity” between Larson and the Avengers, the closest example we could find was an Ellen DeGeneres interview with Larson and Scarlett Johansson. Johansson took Larson to task for not remembering that they met when they worked together in the 2013 movie Don Jon, directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

“I just felt like a glorified extra, and  you were Scarlett Johansson,” an embarrassed Larson said.

Johansson responded, “I noticed you, Brie.I noticed you.”

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