The Fast & Furious franchise has a shocking legacy of superheroes being of their movies, whether or not that’s Vin Diesel as Groot, or the more moderen addition of John “Peacemaker” Cena that got here with final yr’s F9. (This is to say nothing of the actual superhero within the forged, which is Tyrese Gibson as a cop in Morbius.) Next yr’s Fast 10 is bringing Aquaman into the fold, and now it’s been introduced that the franchise is gaining one other superhero actor within the type of Captain Marvel herself, Brie Larson.

Diesel broke the information himself on Saturday evening, posting a selfie of him and Larson smiling collectively. In welcoming her to “The Family,” he additionally teases the significance of her character to “the mythology” of the Fast universe, and she or he’ll add “something you might not have expected, but yearned for.” It’s value noting that again in February, Larson herself mentioned that she was a fan of the franchise and expressed that she would love to be within the movies sometime. “I’m obsessed, I love them,” she advised Uproxx. Good on her for getting to realize her goals.

The manner that Diesel’s caption reads, it’s doable that Larson could also be enjoying somebody related to characters from the earlier movies—which isn’t actually saying something, admittedly, on condition that this collection loves to tug from its personal historical past. But it might even be an entirely new character meant to serve a brand new operate in including some new blood to the franchise. Back in 2019, Diesel mentioned {that a} female-led spinoff was within the works, and since F9 tried to deal with the franchise’s shortcomings on this regard—actors Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster reportedly needed to verify their characters Letty and Mia shared on-screen time together—it seems like the proper time to attempt to get that spinoff off the bottom. Since Fast 11 is supposed to finish the mainline movies, it could make sense for the penultimate movie to set the stage for a brand new lead as soon as Dom and his crew have put their automobiles in park for good. That, or perhaps Larson’s simply enjoying Captain Marvel once more, for the only function of getting Team Toretto even additional into house.

Fast & Furious 10 arrives in theaters on May 19, 2023.