Brie Larson

what am i doing with my life?

Brie Larson, winner of Best Actress for ‘Room,’ onstage at the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California.

Best Actress nominee Brie Larson (Room) speaks onstage at the Oscar Nominee luncheon on February 8, 2016

And in that moment Brie Larson was everyone who is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about the Super Bowl.

Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay attend the 88th Annual Academy Awards nominee luncheon on February 8, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. 

“I’m very interested in the emotional honesty of things, which at times looks kind of ugly and at times looks scary and not polished, and so there were many times when I would audition for something and I would come from, for me, a very honest place, but it’s completely not what they’re looking for for that type of material. But I was always very steadfast in what I was interested in, and I felt like, I’m gonna tell the truth as best as I know it. And you eventually start to understand that the projects find you that meet up with that. It takes as long as it takes, and for me it took like 20 years, but I’m really glad. You know, the jobs always ultimately end up going to the person who’s supposed to tell that story, and those weren’t my stories to tell.” x

Brie Larson at the SAGs photobooth, photographed by Eric Ray Davidson

Brie Larson for The Hollywood Reporter, 2016

Brie Larson attends The 2016 InStyle And Warner Bros. 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards Post-Party at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 10, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.

Maybe you’re not perfect, but you’re willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That’s a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there’s something incredibly hopeful about that.

“I started feeling the limitations of my body. I’m going, “Well, am I going to be trapped playing my age as a woman through various stages?” There’s a lot to be explored with every year of course, but there’s something to, “How much could I know about the male experience if I were to go so far as to play one?” Or to be a CGI version of it. “Could I plausibly play a 60-year-old man?” That seems like, it hasn’t been done before. I’m just throwing it out there.” - Brie Larson

I’ve had tons of weird incidents. There used to be a guy I ran into on 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica who was dressed all in gold and carried a spray-painted gold backpack. He kept going on and on to me about how he wanted to get in contact with Jay-Z to talk about building mud huts. He was very into gold and believed everything was better gold. I had a P.O. box and he had the address for it, and he started sending me things like disassembled bicycles that were reassembled, tied with hoses, and spray-painted gold, as well as other weird art pieces, and he’d rewrite Jay-Z raps to me as love letters on stacks of construction paper, and every letter of every word was a different color, so he took a lot of time doing it. He said his dream was to build me a castle of gold, and he wouldn’t let me leave or see the light of day. I would just return everything to sender, and closed out the P.O. box. -Brie Larson

BRIE LARSON | Calvin Klein presentation at New York Fashion Week | September 17th, 2015