It’s not that I’m living in a movie that’s a fantasy world it feels like the clearest form of reality that I experience. I am in complete connection with the reality. And that snaps me into that zone where it truly feels like life and death - it feels like there are stakes. Jordan, I am thinking about the people that are in prison at that moment who shouldn’t be there. Or when I am sitting on that park bench with Michael B. I realized it’s because I’ve gone out of my way to choose films that have very real stakes. Jordan! Sitting on a park bench! And how is it that my mind goes to that place?” And I was, like, “How does that make any sense! Because I’m not risking my life, you know? I’m not riding a 70-foot wave - I am on set doing a scene with Michael B. And the way they describe the experience is exactly how I feel when I’m on set. I’m reading a book right now about that flow state, and it’s with people in extreme sports - like people climbing mountains or riding giant waves. I mean, I’m always doing that, but in particular there’s this flow state that I get into when I’m at work, and I’ve been trying to understand why that happens. I’ve started paying attention, even in just the last couple of days, because I’ve been trying to really interrogate and understand my experience better. Does it feel important in that way to you? “Captain Marvel” seems good for the world. What world am I creating for an individual? Because these films exist in way more places than I do. Yeah, why not? I mean, I don’t know what’s a great year, but I feel like I’ve always been really committed to paying attention to what it is that I’m making. Your 2019 has been “ Captain Marvel,” “Avengers: Endgame” and “Just Mercy.” Does that feel like a great year? That level of caring, humanity and empathy. And my goal would be to collaborate with him forever.ĭestin just loves people, you know, and it comes through - it comes through in his films. He is my favorite person to go into the dark with. I will work with him as long as he asks me to show up. When there’s so much true, honest vulnerability between people, it just solidifies relationships in a way that nothing else does. It’s a level of depth that’s kind of beyond words, because we’ve just shared so much together. His family is my family his wife and kid are my family. This is your third movie with Destin Cretton. And those are things that will stay with me for the rest of my life. What it was like for Jamie to grow up in Texas, for example. In the actors’ holding area, Jamie would hold these conversations, and I would sit there and listen to people talk. And I felt very open to learning what ally-ship is right now. And I will forever be a student of Bryan Stevenson for that reason. And I still was just getting schooled every day. And I’m somebody who is very curious and wants to do the most that I can. So it was just a really humbling experience. And experiencing that 100 times in a day does something really remarkable to your brain that makes things feel so clear and so vital. I think we all felt it we felt that tension, and felt the heaviness of that. And that part of me that was just holding my breath. And there was not one time that I didn’t feel, in every cell of my body, the anticipation and the fear. I sat in that room and waited to hear the verdict 100 times. And we had an entire day of hearing Walter’s final verdict. There are certain days, the courtroom days in particular, that are such high-stress scenes that involve so much tension. It’s set in the past, but it’s just so topical. “Just Mercy” covers so many topics: mass incarceration, racial injustice, police malfeasance and the death penalty. It was also Cretton who first told Larson to read “Just Mercy” prior to filming “The Glass Castle.” “I became very passionate about that book, and about Bryan in particular for a couple years after that,” Larson says.įor this week’s Power of Women issue, in which Larson is honored for her philanthropy with the Equal Justice Initiative, she spoke to Variety about “Just Mercy,” her time as a Marvel superhero and why she doesn’t Google herself. Larson was brought to “Just Mercy” by Cretton, and it’s their third collaboration after “ Short Term 12” (2013) and “The Glass Castle” (2017).
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