Brie Larson says her rescue dog chose his ‘ridiculous’ name
Brie Larson has a new “Muppet” in her life: her rescue dog.
“He’s so cute and I’m sorry I kept him from you, but his name is Six-Thirty and I thought I might be breaking the rules.” [SAG-AFTRA] strike when I talk about him,” the 34-year-old Oscar winner said during an appearance on Friday, November 10 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “I didn’t choose his name. He chose it, [but] I just don’t have the heart to tell him that it’s just completely absurd and inappropriate.
Larson explained that when she rescued Six-Thirty, he was “very shy” and that she came up with a few different name options.
“My friends threw everything away,” she noted to Jimmy Fallon. “And my best friend, who is a nutrition consultant [my new show] Lessons in chemistry, she saw him and said, ‘Oh, my God! He’s half past six!’ And he looked up.”
Larson thought the choice of name, while appealing to the dog, was “too strange.” But when she said “Thirty-six” a few more times, he continued to respond to it – unlike anything else she tried to call him.
“I have tried everything. I had four days where I called him Dog, Jeremy, Jimmy, David, ‘de Miracles star complained. “I would open the pantry and say, ‘Are you flour?’ Are you salty? Are you black pepper?’”
Brie Larson and Jimmy Fallon on November 10, 2023.
Todd Owyoung/NBCShe continued: “He chose it, so please be respectful when you see him.”
Although Larson and Six-Thirty have made peace with the decision, the pet’s vet wasn’t as understanding.
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“His vet thinks it’s ridiculous. His vet is confused,” Larson noted. “The receptionist said, ‘Your Six-Thirty is here.’ And he says, ‘It’s two o’clock, I don’t know what that means.’ It’s confusing.”
Although Larson is a proud dog mom, she won’t be getting a cat anytime soon — despite Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers’ on-screen sidekick Goose.
“I’m still allergic,” she joked Entertainment weekly in an interview published in July, in which she noted that she couldn’t do her MCU stunts with the cat present. “I hope that changes. But until that happens, a large part of the CGI budget will go to me and the cat.”
In both Captain Marvel and continued The miracles – which came out Friday – Larson’s titular superhero finds a special bond with a flerken named Goose. According to comic lore, a flerken is an alien species that looks like a cat, but has hundreds of tentacles in its mouth – which can come in handy when fighting bad guys.