Oscar-winning actress Brie Larson about her childhood in poverty – THE WORLD

As Brie Larson has just been honored for her role in “Room” with the Oscar for “Best Actress”, which was a big surprise. Who’s that ?, many wondered. It has the 26-year-old from Sacramento, California, already demonstrates a remarkable acting career, in almost 50 roles was seen mostly in independent films. “Space” runs this Thursday in German cinemas on.

Brie Larson is stubborn, bears witness not only the choice of her films. After the ceremony she posted in her Instagram account without comment a backstage photo of the “Vanity Fair” -Aftershowparty as in one hand holds the Oscar in white Chucks and casual dress, in the other a burger, into which they bites , To talk in a London hotel but comes discreetly in a purple sheath dress and ordered: “Just water, please.”

The World: Miss Larson, you have grown accustomed to the many praise?

Photo: AFP with Oscar: won Brie Larson end of February surprising as “Best Actress”

Brie Larson: I have a lot to distract me from it. I see it rather as that the film deserves the praise. I give nothing to the great attention that is given to me personally

The World:. But carry the film “Room” you over long distances almost alone. They are to be seen in as a mother who is imprisoned with her five year old son in a twelve-square-foot space. Not an easy role

Larson:. Right. My friends and family were a little concerned when I told them about my new film. I worked at that time with a precise timetable. The deeper and darker I had to play, the shorter I could. Often I had to Lenny ( Abrahamson, director, n. D. Red. ) to ask if I could be an hour or four hours so dark scenes. From the depth of a scene I could usually only very slowly resurface

The World:. The movie is to the book of Canadian writer Emma Donoughe ajar, which in turn was inspired by the Austrian Fritzl case. Did you know before the story of the daughter, who was imprisoned by her father 24 years in an underground apartment and fathered seven children with her?

Larson: No. I have learned from it only by the book by Emma Donoughe

The World:.? How did you prepare

Larson: I’ve talked with a specialist on the impact of sexual abuse and how the brain processes it if you many years long lived in one small room. The most important note was that the mother is in a permanent state of emergency, in which they must struggle to survive. Your brain tries everything to make her body survives and does not collapse under the stress and pressure. It will not feel anything until it is again in a safe place

The World:. And physically

?

Larson: I’ve talked to a nutritionist about the consequences of malnutrition and what it is so long without toothbrush, shampoo, any hygiene products live. How skin, hair and nails respond. I ate no carbohydrates in time, no sugar and trained with a fitness trainer to gain muscle and lose fat. The only defense that remains of the mother, is her body. to keep this alive, because she does everything.

“space” with Oscar winner Brie Larson

              Since her abduction Joy lives with her five year old son locked in a small room. . After seven years of successful two escape, but life in freedom is more difficult than expected Source: Universal Pictures

The world: how do you prepare in such an intense rotation with a seven year old child before

Larson: For three weeks we just tinkered just toys, toys that can be seen in “Room”. Our outfitter had garbage, pins and baby teeth collected from which we created their own characters. We are portrayed each other. That was a fun. Thus we escape the pressure, all the time to talk with each other. When the shooting began, Lenny put us in the room where we had just improvise. You see us cook, play and do simple things together

The World:.? What have you learned about yourself

Larson: respect for my own mother. Every few days I called her sobbing and asked for forgiveness

The World:. Why is that

?

Larson: from a child’s perspective you do not understand the complicated life of a mother. Sometimes it looks bizarre and wrong as parents act. During filming, I realized just how she herself had once despite difficult circumstances pressure and pain from me kept away.

Photo: Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty Images a versatile appearance: Brie Larson posed in Switzerland sometimes in the woods for a Photographers

The world: Sounds like you have not had a simple childhood

Larson: The circumstances were difficult. I was seven when my mother took me and my four year old sister from Sacramento to Los Angeles. We had hardly any money. I can remember only a toy, my plastic dinosaurs. In a small studio apartment, that was not much larger than the rooms in “Room”, there was daily Maccheroni with cheese instant dishes to eat. And yet, thanks to my mother, we had fun, and I have many good memories of that time. In our studio was like “Room” all at a game. We jumped around and watched us in the large mirror on the wall

The World:. Where was your father

Larson: My father never really wanted to be a father. It took several years before I realized that the reason of the move was not my earlier desire to become an actress, but my parents’ divorce. My mother was taken with 4,000 dollars in his pocket to L.A. and had no one. She did not even know if I would make it with seven years as an actress. If she failed, she would have to return to her parents. But instead of being pull down them, she created a fantasy world in which she lived with us. When her money ran out, she could order a time the facade maintained. Until she had to tell us kids what was really going on. From that day on, I broke off all contact with my father. Only now – even by the shooting of “Room” – I understood why so many of my works were so unstable

The World:. you were like Britney Spears early in Mickey Mouse Club, but managed not then the breakthrough as. As Teen They were with the song “She said” in the US charts, but also a music career did not work out so well. Only much later you were a supporting role as Ben Stiller’s niece in “United States of Tara” known. Where the early request

Larson got into acting? I do not know, since no one in my family had anything to had to do. With six years I convinced my mother that I wanted to be an actress necessarily. Once a week I took acting lessons. My mother reacted only disbelief because I was a very shy girl

The World:. Of one notices anything today.

Larson: Yes, I have overcome my fears. But then I have difficulties made friends. It was crazy, on the one hand, I stepped on a stage in front of hundreds of people, but at a birthday party I did not start with me a lot.