Brie Larson has racked up her share of bodily and emotionally spectacular moments on display screen, from her intense scenes in Room (which earned her an Oscar) to the superhero coaching for Captain Marvel and even the grueling rock-climbing sequences in The Glass Fortress. However her newest feat? Along with juggling a packed 2025 film schedule, the MCU A-lister is casually balancing on high of two tin cans prefer it’s simply one other Wednesday, and doing it in a pair of blazing scorching pink boots that followers of latest celeb Barbiecore vogue tendencies might envy.
The Scott Pilgrim Takes Off voice actor shared the brief video on Instagram. It is the sort of video you scroll previous, then immediately scroll again to only to substantiate you noticed what you suppose you noticed. Test it out for your self beneath and be amazed:
Balancing on cans isn’t any small feat (significantly, attempt it at dwelling — rigorously — and see how lengthy you final). Nevertheless, Larson’s clip isn’t simply her randomly standing on cans in scorching pink boots, however as an alternative is participating within the viral Nicki Minaj Problem. As The New York Occasions reported, it is a TikTok and Instagram pattern that’s racked up over 1.3 billion views beneath the #nickiminajchallenge hashtag. Impressed by Minaj’s pretzel-like pose from her 2013 Excessive College music video, the problem has developed right into a recreation of “how a lot more durable can we make this?”
Celebs and creators have been upping the ante by putting the pose in heels on cooking pots, soda cans, monkey bars, you identify it. Brie Larson has a really particular motive for participating within the pattern, although. As she humorously famous in her caption, she was advised that it might be a good way to advertise her new e book.
In actual fact, Larson’s resolution to steadiness on two cans additionally appears to be a not-so-subtle plug for her upcoming cookbook, Social gathering Individuals, which is co-written with former Milk Bar culinary director Courtney McBroom. The e book, which she’s holding within the video, is ready to launch on October 21 and can embrace 100 inventive recipes and celebration concepts starting from Soiled Dancing–themed birthdays to a Scorching Canine Appreciation Pageant. If something, this proves Larson can convey the identical power to a kitchen as she will to a Marvel set… or a balancing stunt.
The entire video is a feat of steadiness, however let’s be trustworthy, it’s Brie Larson’s scorching pink, knee-high boots that deserve their very own headline. They’re daring, unapologetic, and each bit as attention-grabbing because the stunt itself. Additionally, judging by the feedback, they did their job. One fan summed it up completely: “Nicely that is the primary I’m listening to of the e book, so it labored and I’m bought.” Identical right here!
I additionally had no concept the Quick Time period 12 star had a cookbook coming this yr till she posted this. So, sure, give that social media supervisor a elevate, as a result of this was a masterclass in turning a viral pattern into an ideal promo second.
Past her cookbook, Brie Larson’s maintaining busy, although her 2026 film launch slate presently doesn’t record any upcoming Marvel films, even with the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday on the horizon. After all, it’s at all times potential Captain Marvel might pop up in a shock cameo. We’ll simply have to attend and see.