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  • Brie Larson Takes Home SAG Award for Best Actress in “Room”

    Brie Larson won big at the SAG Awards this past weekend–taking home the Best Actress in A Movie award for her role in Room.

    Beating out some stiff competition, Brie Larson won over Cate Blanchett, who was nominated for her role in Carol, Helen Mirren for Woman in Gold, Saoirse Ronan for Brooklyn, and Sarah Silverman for her role in I Smile Back.

    “I feel like I was born questioning everything about reality, feeling lost and alone and always worried that I was deeply unlovable,” Brie Larson said as she accepted her SAG Award.

    “And watching your movies…made me feel less alone and made me feel like that was a safe place to explore my creativity,” she added.

    Larson thanked her onscreen son, the very sweet Jacob Tremblay, calling him her “inspiration.”

    “Everything that is this movie is because of you,” she said to the little boy, who smiled at her from the audience.

    Brie Larson also won a Golden Globe for her lead in Room, and has been nominated for an Academy Award for the same.

    Room follows a young woman (Brie Larson) who has been held captive in a shed for several years with her five-year-old son (Jacob Tremblay). Her captor is her son’s father.

    Have you seen Brie Larson in Room? Do you expect she will add an Academy Award to her Golden Globe and SAG Award for her performance in this film?

  • Brie Larson Wins Best Actress and Best Dressed at Sunday’s Golden Globes

    Brie Larson is an all-around winner. Walking away with one of the most prestigious–not to mention competitive–awards at Sunday’s Golden Globes, the actress and singer went home with the Best Actress in a Drama award for her role in the film Room.

    Directed by Lenny Abrahamson and adapted from the novel of the same name by Emma Donoghue, Brie Larson plays the role of Ma, a woman living in captivity with her young son who was fathered by her captor.

    Brie Larson gave a heartfelt acceptance speech, thanking Donoghue, Abrahamson, as well as her young co-star, Jacob Tremblay.

    “I’m sorry to anyone I forgot,” she said. “I’ll send you a thank you card.”

    In addition to receiving this huge Golden Globes honor, Brie Larson also walked away knowing she was deemed the event’s best dressed by Access Hollywood. Present on the red carpet at the Golden Globes, their reporters held an unofficial poll, critiquing many of the evening’s fashions.

    Brie Larson started out as a teen actress, then moved into the music field. She is known for her role in the TV sitcom Raising Dad, and appeared in films including 13 Going On 30. She had a role in Amy Schumer’s 2015 film Trainwreck.

    Sunday was a big night for Brie Larson. She received an incredible validation from the Hollywood Foreign Press and big kudos for her fashion prowess as well.

  • Brie Larson Reacts to Being Called New “It” Girl

    Brie Larson was recently referred to as the new “It” girl, and she dished on the moniker during a recent interview with CBS News.

    “What is ‘it’?” she asked. “There is no ‘it’! And who was ‘it’ before ‘it’? And when does ‘it’ go away? When did I get ‘it’? Who’s gonna take ‘it’?”

    “I think it’s a really funny term. I’m just a person. I’m not anything!” Brie Larson added.

    It was during this past summer that Larson earned the name, while starring alongside Amy Schumer in her film Trainwreck. More recently, however, it’s her work in Room that is garnering her lots of attention.

    Room stars Brie Larson as a young woman who is kidnapped and kept in a shed for years–along with her 5-year-old son, Jack (played by Jacob Tremblay). Jack was born in captivity and never experienced the outside world.

    Brie Larson is flabbergasted that she’s hearing Oscar buzz with regard to her role in this film.

    “It’s just not even something that your brain can wrap itself around,” she says.

    It won’t be long before everyone knows everything about Brie Larson. She will no doubt be front and center in the media as the Academy Awards draw near.

  • Brie Larson Talks Diet, Isolation in Preparation for “Room”

    Brie Larson stars in the upcoming film Room. Based on the 2010 best-selling novel by Emma Donoghue, Room tells the story of a young boy named Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother. Larson plays his mom, Ma, who was kidnapped and raped by her captor. Room, which co-stars Joan Allen and William H. Macy, depicts what happens when they are let out of captivity as well.

    Room premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September and shortly thereafter received the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival.

    “It’s a very old story but told in a contemporary way…I thought this was an amazing opportunity to show the more universal aspect of it and to get human beings to connect with it. I also thought it was a way to make a comment on some of the interesting constructs that we’ve created for our society,” Brie Larson said in an interview with CBS News.

    Even though she had no clue what it felt like to be held captive for seven years, Brie Larson did what she could to prepare for playing this role.

    “I was on this restrictive diet with the help of a nutritionist and I was working out with a trainer every day. And I was speaking with a trauma counselor,” she said. “The only aspect that I had a hard time wrapping my brain around was being in a confined space for seven years. Like seven years later, what kind of acceptance has arisen from being there for so long? When you’re given all this empty time in silence, what kind of stuff comes up?”

    Brie Larson did her best to create her own silent room for one month, too.

    “I just pared everything down–no cell phone and just basically stayed at home and the only time I did anything active was when I was doing these workouts.”

    Even these minor changes in her life resulted in repressed moments from her past.

    “I was surprised to discover that I had some memories myself that were sort of similar to Room–in the metaphorical sense — and it gave me incredible insight into another aspect of myself, which is why is I loved this project so much,” she said.

    Eight-year-old Jacob Tremblay plays Brie Larson’s son Jack in Room. She says he brought a sense of light and innocence to a set that was filled with a great deal of darkness.

    “Making a movie is really hard and it takes participation and a lot of brain power of 100 people–and something is bound to go wrong. There’s a thousand things we need to get right in a day. It’s easier to hang on to those things and to participate in the problem. But Jacob never does. Those things are never on his radar at all. Every day on set is just super fun and a chance to play and if you have to cry in a scene, that’s super fun. So we had this energy around that would bring this lightness to everything. Nothing would ever go too dark,” Larson said.

    In addition to Room, Brie Larson recently starred with Amy Schumer in Trainwreck.

    Will you check out Brie Larson in Room when it starts opening in U.S. theaters on Friday?