re: Brie Larson - future as a mainstream movie star?

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Does she have the it...after this acclaim from the Room to sustain it.

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Short answer...yes.

Longer answer...I went to see Room this past weekend, and had heard nothing about it. Didn't even know she had been nominated or the movie, etc. I knew my wife had read the book, but other than seeing the trailer the day of going I knew nothing.

In fact, I was 40 minutes into the movie before I even recognized her as the daughter on that Showtime show Tara which I had really enjoyed. I had recognized the name, but hadn't placed it. I leaned over to tell my wife who the actress was, and she looked at me like, "No shite..." Weird thing about that, is that I always though she was the strongest character and performance on that show, which is saying something considering the lead was Toni Collette who was playing 4 different characters.

But yeah...she killed it in Room. It was hard to see in this movie, but she's really cute and is very charismatic. There's no reason she won't find pretty major success, if not the same type of roles as Jennifer Lawrence.