Brie Larson shared that she is ‘grateful’ for the ‘rejection’ she endured during the ‘slow burn’ of her rise to stardom.
The 34-year-old made her professional debut with a sketch on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno when she was only eight years old.
Her career progressed until at the age of 25, she won an Oscar for best actress for her acclaimed performance in the drama Room.
Now she has looked back on the years of struggle when she would ‘book one job a year or something’ as she attempted to advance in Hollywood.
‘It gave me so much experience so that when I was given the opportunities, I was truly ready for it,’ she told Andrew Scott for Variety’s Actors On Actors.
Brie Larson shared that she is ‘grateful’ for the ‘rejection’ she endured during the ‘slow burn’ of her rise to stardom
From her debut aged eight, her career progressed until at the age of 25, she won an Oscar (pictured) for best actress for her acclaimed performance in the drama Room
‘I mean, I’m so grateful that I had so much rejection growing up. It’s wild! I very much had a slow burn in my career,’ the Captain Marvel star said.
‘I’d get close to things, so I knew that I had something, but I wasn’t booking, or I’d book one job a year or something – just enough to give me hope,’ she said.
After her shot on The Tonight Show, Brie landed sporadic work on such projects as the sitcom Raising Dad and the films Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World and 21 Jump Street.
It was Room, however, that turbo-charged her career when it bowed in 2015 and earned her an Academy Award for best actress in a lead role.
Brie played a kidnap victim who has spent seven years trapped in a filthy shed where she cares for her son (Jacob Tremblay), who was conceived when her abductor raped her.
Two years after Room, she entered the sphere of mainstream Hollywood tentpoles with Kong: Skull Island, acting alongside Tom Hiddleston and Samuel L. Jackson.
In 2019 she made her thunderous debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the leading lady of Captain Marvel, which earned over $1 billion at the box office.
By that point, her early years in showbiz had given ‘me so much experience so that when I was given the opportunities, I was truly ready for it,’ she said.
It was Room that turbo-charged her career when it released in 2015 and turned Brie into a favorite of the critics, winning her an Academy Award
Brie played a kidnap victim who has spent seven years trapped in a filthy shed where she cares for her son (Jacob Tremblay), who was conceived when her abductor raped her
‘It gave me so much experience so that when I was given the opportunities, I was truly ready for it,’ she told Andrew Scott for Variety ‘s Actors On Actors
Andrew is pictured in a new shoot for his Variety conversation with Brie
‘I never had a time on set where I was like: “Oh, gosh. This is bigger than what I understand.” It was always, like, well paced,’ she said.
Brie embarked on a hiatus from acting when she went into lockdown for COVID-19, and she only returned to the movies in 2023.
She reprised her superhero role in The Marvels, a notorious flop, and she also joined the Fast And Furious franchise with Fast X, which performed tepidly.
The blonde actress was raised in Northern California and homeschooled by her parents, who were both homeopathic chiropractors.
She suffered from painful shyness but nevertheless, at the age of six, became the youngest student to train at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
‘My parents were chiropractors, and I was super shy. I wouldn’t let it go. Of course, it’s changed the course of my life in so many ways,’ she said of her acting class.
‘But at a time when I was so shy and had such a hard time expressing myself, at six years old, I was basically given, like: “OK, here’s a script for how you have a conversation,”‘ she explained. ‘The actual fiber of how I understand how to have pleasant conversations with people is based upon weekly acting sessions.’
