At tonight ’s Oscars ceremony , 26 - year - former Brie Larson accept the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role inRoom , one ofour preferent moving picture from last yr . A few monthsbeforewinning her first Oscar , Larson accepted … a few interrogative from me , include the extremely urgent : " Do you ever have to go to meeting ? "

That nonsequitur is n’t what anyone would be revolutionize to ask after watchingRoom , the torturing narration of a fair sex and son who escape a seven - year imprisonment only to chance upon that post - kidnap living is also turbulent , but Larson rose to the occasion . " Are you kid me ? " said the 26 - year - old actress , who also co - starred inTrainwreck . " I have to go to meetings all the time ! We ’re just like you . Have n’t you seen that ?   ' They ’re just like us ! ' "

Larson is n’t really like us , though , because she make high - visibility pic ( likeher coming King Kong film ) for a living .   But the actress is alotlike us , a nice person with interestingness , ambition , and weird quirkiness . After that coming together - centrical question , Larson gamely field a few more queries and proved she ’s both all down to terra firma and altogether deserving of that Best Actress prize .

Brie Larson winning Best Actress at the 2016 Oscars

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Roomwas an intense viewing experience. But I’ll admit that, when your character, Ma, reenters the world and visits her old bedroom, my attention went to the decorations. Were the pink walls and boy band posters true to your own life?

Ethan Tobman was our production designer . He ’s a genius . I expend so much clock time with him . We were just talking about that , really . He said , " The way   was the hard set I had to build . " And I say , " Yeah , makes sense . " You know ? That ’s the whole movie . And he ’s like , " Oh no , not that room – Ma ’s bedroom . " I was like , " Wait a s . That ’s just not possible . How is that possible ? " [ But ] in one shot , in one frame , you have to understand an entire life of somebody . It ’s the only way we really get to know her . It ’s the only explanation we have of her .

What was in her bedroom?

short ton of stuff . [ For bill sticker ] , I was just like constantly emailing him with the music that I was heed to at that age . I also institute my old iPod – like my onetime , vast iPod from when I was 15 – and gave it to him , so he would listen to it while he was decorating the sleeping accommodation .

Now you have to admit what was on 15-year-old Brie’s iPod.

It ’s so all over the spot . It ’s like , Rolling Stones – like unsound Rolling Stones remixes mixed with like , Aaliyah and like Big Star . And the Zombies . Like a combination of all kind of things . I ’m sure there was Spice Girls on there as well . I do n’t want to make myself fathom like I had smashing music tasting at 15 because I ’m not sure that I did .

No one did.

I did make a collage in my bedchamber at 15 like the collage on the wall . I give way Ethan photograph and he really get specific things that were in my chamber and put them in – but I did n’t fuck . I was just constantly sending him idea and cite and I let him arrange it all , and I did n’t desire to see any of it until we shot it .

What was in your collage?

Things that I liked in powder magazine . It could have been a picture of a beefburger , it could have been a horseshoe . It could have been a lipstick . It was just things that I thought were nerveless . I hung out in my sleeping room as a teenager and collaged .

Were you able to isolate yourself in preparation forRoom?

I ride out at my firm . I mean , it ’s not as big as Room . But I finger like masses think it’ssoooootraumatizing [ to remain in ] – but , like , have you not stayed at home ? Have you not felt the pauperization to , like , not go anywhere for for a while ? I do n’t have telephone signal at plate anyways , and I ’m kind of a homebody , so it was n’t like a immense leap . Why do n’t I explore quiet for more of my day than I do now ?

There’s a big difference between staying in for the weekend and being trapped inside a shed for seven years. I think.

Seven geezerhood was harder for me to understand . I talk with the trauma specialiser about that , about the effects of intimate ill-treatment and the effect of being in a infinite like that , what that would do , and he was able-bodied to explain to me very attractively that our nous are constantly shutting off awareness of things . So powerful now , to shut off , I inquire what people are doing out there or why people are honking in their motorcar , and it helps me to focus on this conversation or not think about a war that ’s happening how many countries over .

We can do that in gravid facial expression of our lives . So say you ’re trapped in a room where , to pull round and basically make do with the situation , your brain shuts off the part that would be constantly wondering or combat to get out . It bulge to accept the reality and sort of craft itself around that . The big piece I start out from that was : none of the deep , worked up stuff in regards to the trauma of Room would be expressed while we were in Room . It would n’t be until she ’s back at home and in a secure position where she ’s not constantly live in survival mode , where she ’d be able to really take a step back and front at all of it and go , " Whoa , that chance to me ? " And that ’s why it becomes more worked up in the second half .

Yeah, there’s something grander in play when the movie segues out of the terror of being captured and into normalcy.

The movie is far more metaphoric than we can even advert upon . But I think Jack [ Tremblay ’s ] role , especially in the second half of the film , is no matter how heavy Ma will endeavor to be Joy and to be disjoined from Room and to kind of fill up the door on that and put it away , her Logos will always be a animation , breathing , growing reminder of that place , and there is no evasion from the botheration of what find in the past .

Is that something you connect to on a personal level?

The one I ’ve been thinking about a portion is … I do n’t even want to know how many times I ’ve auditioned for thing . Like , I ’m sure it ’s close to tens of thousands of auditions since I was seven until now . And if you search at my IMDb , I did n’t get ten thousand jobs , so imagine all of those no ’s and how many times that really hurt , being told that I was too grandiloquent or I was too myopic or I did n’t have blue eye . All of these things that amass in me as a huge signified of pain and rejection , just constant , constant , constant mundane rejection .

When I saw how upturned my sister was that when she did n’t get into a college that she liked , it reminded me of that same sense of rejection . Of feeling like the plaza that you felt that you were say to go and the place you ’re going to be and the people you ’re going to be accepted by were n’t assume you . You feel a sensory faculty of displacement and loss . But now that I ’m in a dissimilar place now in my life , I look back at all thosenos and , whereas before I never wanted to think about it , because it anguish and made me feel ego - doubt , palpate like I could n’t go on any longer and maybe this is not what I ’m supposed to do , now I calculate at all of them and I reckon , I am so thankful for every one of them . I want to get closer to them . I need to know about them more .

All of those annoyance , all of those times that it take away me through some sort of dark nighttime of the psyche , are the reasons why I can do a Room , the understanding why I can do aShort Term 12 . If I was some somebody who had never see pain in the ass in their life story , suppose how confusing it would be to play a striking purpose .

Brie Larson in Room

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Did you at any point leading up toRoomfeel like, “I’m going to fucking own this movie!”

No , I did n’t finger like that at all . I felt like humbled every day , of like , " I am not worthy of all that needs to be done so as to keep this affair together . "

Well, if you’re feeling too good about yourself, you have a Twitter account.

[ Laughs ] I can always go back to that .

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Oscar winner Brie Larson in Room

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