Brie Larson says it took a year to get out of headspace after play

It took Brie Larson a while to disconnect from her performance in Bedroom.

During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter During a drama actress panel discussion at the Emmys, the 34-year-old opened up about how she struggled to let go of her intense roles, saying “the hardest part for me wasn’t committing to the characters, but to get out of them.

“Basically, I haven’t done anything as dark as Bedroom Since Bedroom because it took me a year to get out of it,” she explained. “And it was really scary. It took me a long time to be able to do the basic things I loved in my life.

In BedroomLarson played a kidnapping victim who was held captive with her 5-year-old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay) in a garden shed.

The star, who won a best actress Oscar in 2016 for her performance, underwent six months of preparation for the role, staying out of the sun for months and gaining 15 pounds. of muscle after working with a trainer. She also studied the effects of sexual abuse and vitamin deficiency, as well as reading about people in solitary confinement and captivity.

Larson said in the THR panel that during intense filming “you hope to have the grace of an executive producer who has scheduled it so that there are moments where you can unload”, but shared this for her role as Elizabeth Zott in Apple TV+. Chemistry lessons This was not the case.

“I didn’t have that (and it was made more difficult because my) character doesn’t let anyone see his emotions. Eventually I was like, ‘You have to put a pop-up tent on set, and that’ is where I’m going to cry. Because sometimes it’s so intense and I say to myself: “I can’t take it anymore!” company on set You have to find what suits you.

Elsewhere in the interview, the Captain Marvel The star also opened up about who in the industry helped her through the toughest and loneliest times of acting.

“Over the years, I did my best to make friends with other women in the industry, as there was usually only one woman per position,” she said. “It was just me, and there are things that make me uncomfortable or things that I would like to change or things that I would like to laugh about, and connecting with other women was a game changer because you can exchange stories.”

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In 2015, the year when Bedroom came out, Larson told PEOPLE it was “an emotional marathon making” the drama.

“There are times when you think I just don’t have anything left to give,” she recalled at the time. “We realize that there is more and that life goes on and that it’s hard. It’s good.”

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She also said Variety she warned friends and family that she might be very sensitive while filming the film, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and adapted from the novel of the same name by Emma Donoghue.

“I know enough about the brain to know that I was rewiring it,” she said. “As much as we like to say, ‘I’ll be able to turn it on and off,’ there are certain things that when you’re playing that person 12 hours a day, your waking life is that character.”