“It’s been a long road, simply put,” revealed Oscar winner Brie Larson while discussing her role as Elizabeth Zott in the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ limited series “Lessons in Chemistry.” She tells Gold Derby’s Latasha Ford, “It was three years of development, to then bring it to the screen and film it. I got to experience so much life while making it, and to have an opportunity to play a character who is also experiencing so much life — it’s a very large scope of a story.” Watch the full video interview above.
Larson attended “Lessons in Chemistry’s” FYC event at the Television Academy’s Wolf Theater on June 9 in North Hollywood, California. At a max-capacity screening and panel, the actress was joined by co-stars Lewis Pullman and Aja Naomi King, executive producer Lee Eisenberg and director Sarah Adina Smith.
“Sometimes with film, it’s about a singular event,” she told Gold Derby prior to the screening. “This is about what it means to live a life. To explore that, especially in a medium like television, it’s moving really fast. You get the feeling of life falling through your fingertips. Scenes that are difficult are over in two hours. Scenes that you love shooting are over in two hours. When you have that meditation for many months, it brings you to presence. It was a big gift.”
When confronted with her stellar awards history, Larson admits, “I’m blushing, I had no idea. Now I’m getting nervous.” But the actress proclaims she doesn’t work for accolades. “It’s not for me to consider,” she says. “The part that I enjoy is bringing everything that I have to it and leaving it all out on the field. Where it ends up, how it ends up and how people take it, I can’t get caught up in it. We’ve been really lucky so far and [there’s] been a lot of opportunities for us to sit at a table and clink glasses and celebrate. That matters.”
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