Super Mario Galaxy Movie star Brie Larson says it's "time for us in cinema to recognize what we can take from video games"

Ahead of playing Princess Rosalina in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Brie Larson thinks that movies still have a lot to learn from video games.

"There's so much that video games are taking from cinema, and I think it's really time for us in cinema to recognize what we can take from video games," Larson told the Seen on the Screen podcast.

"The gaming community is much bigger than the film and television world, and it's this bizarre thing where now that I've started talking about it more and reaching out and even talking with video game companies because I find it so inspiring and these are the creators that I love, I'm learning that it's this thing where it's like, people say, 'what movies did you see? What book are you reading?'" Larson added. "But not so much do you think to ask, 'what video game are you playing right now?'"

The Captain Marvel star has been a long-time fan of the Mario games, revealing last year that she "threw my first boyfriend out of my house because I was trying to beat the final level in Super Mario Galaxy. He said I was taking it too seriously, so I threw him out of my house."

In the games, Rosalina is the adoptive mother of the star-shaped Lumas who also watches over the cosmos. She's not the only new addition to the Mario voice cast for the sequel, either – she's joined by Donald Glover as Yoshi and Benny Safdie as Bowser Jr, alongside returning stars Chris Pratt as Mario, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, and Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie arrives in theaters on April 1. For more, check out our guide to the other upcoming video game movies on the way in 2026 and beyond.