EXCLUSIVE: Spirit Award-nominated Brie Larson has boarded indie drama Room, directed by Lenny Abrahamson. She’ll star as Ma, a woman kidnapped as a teenager who has been held captive for years in a tiny room where she lives with her 5-year-old son Jack. To the boy, Room is the only home he’s ever known. Emma Donoghue adapted the script from her own 2010 bestseller which was itself partially inspired by the 2008 case of Austrian woman Elisabeth Fritzl, who escaped from a basement after a 24-year captivity during which she gave birth to seven children. Larsen is coming off of her award-winning central turn in last year’s Short Term 12. She’ll next be seen in Paramount’s upcoming The Gambler opposite Mark Wahlberg, Judd Apatow’s Trainwrecked, and DreamWorks’ The Good Luck Of Right Now. Room is produced by Ed Guiney for his Irish shingle Element Pictures. Larson is repped by The Gersh Agency and Authentic Talent & Literary Management. UTA reps Donoghue and the film and is putting financing together alongside Element.
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this is perfect for her. now i’m excited to see this. brie is fantastic.
Everyone involved in this project is, I am certain, lovely and talented.
Please accept this as a LOUD VOICE screaming to stop portraying women being held captive for sexual exploitation. ENOUGH. No reasonable person should be exposed to so many hours of these visual images.
Feel free to SCREAM BACK but only if you are a woman. Trust me, you wouldn’t understand.
Interesting book, interesting actress. I’m excited.
she’s a phenomenal talent. glad she didn’t go for the lame terminator reboot, she deserves much better and will hopefully keep booking great roles in films
Element Pictures is actually an Irish production company.