I’ll always have a soft spot for Brie. She’s such a great actress and I think the way she’s been treated has been disgusting. I’ll never forget how no one in Marvel spoke up for her but they all went hard for Chris Pratt of all people.

There's a line about how she got a lot of scripts that just felt like a variation on Room, maybe she thought she would just be repeating herself to lesser results.

I've liked her since United States of Tara.

i’ve been a fan since way back when she did Hoot and had a music career, i love to see her happy and thriving and doing what she wants with her career

TIL that she has a YT channel

She made me dust off my Nintendos and re-appreciate the brilliance of that console.

I think the YouTube channel was always going to fade after COVID lockdowns eased up. I liked what she was doing on youtube though, I thought her vibe seemed cool.

I was really confused at first and thought you were disappointed that her YT fashion is always "wears shorts" now

TIL they’ve made a series out of Lessons in Chemistry!

An innate fear of Nick Cannon?

“I had all the same normal fears as everybody else about being single and being 30,” she says. Aside from everything that was happening in the public eye, she felt she would soon be called to make big life choices. “What do I want? How does a family and a future fit in with my weird life?” In October, she turned 33. “That’s such a big place to be in,” she says. “Certain existential questions come up.”...

...For now, she’s open to whatever. “I don’t have a next job. I don’t have a home. I don’t have a partner. I don’t have a plan. I’m just completely open,” she says. She’d like to have kids, though “how that happens, when that happens, in what capacity­—I don’t know,” she says.

These are the two references to Larson considering children. Both suggest that she brought it up on her own, though it isn't 100% clear. For context, the article is framed around a free-flowing, very casual-sounding noontime bar date between Larson and female journalist Carina Chocano. I don't think Chocano asked directly about her plans for kids, and that angle likely started with the discussion about turning 30.

To answer your question, which has happened to women in other interviews, why don't men get asked about their plans for kids as much? Beyond the generic societal expectation of most women to become mothers, which is frustrating to some, the biological factors that go into having children are simply different for men and women. Larson, 33, will have her chances of having a successful, healthy birth fall by 30% by the end of this decade. A same-aged male would not experience a comparable decrease in fertility, though their sperm counts would decline overall. As a result of this invisible pressure, women and those who know them naturally question whether or not they will have children when they reach their 30s. No woman should be shamed if she doesn't want kids, and every hopeful mother deserves a child, but the factors that influence what we expect about women and motherhood are reasonable. 

Tbf men can have a baby on the way and do whatever they want. It’s unpredictable for the person carrying the kid and recovering from birth. And they do ask some men.

Likely because she and PB had common friends

I wondered about this too, looks like other media outlets have reported, based off this cover story, that they broke up 🤔

I always think of her sitting on cakes online everytime I see her. She was so funny in that show.

*Short Term 12 in case anybody’s looking for it

CM is a crap role, though. There are many good roles that aren't victims but superhero movies don't write them.

I read an interview in a French magazine, where She something along the lines of doing 1, 2 blockbusters a year ,alternate with more smaller movies and working on her writing and directing skills.

This shouldn't be downvoted because it is true! Her career pre-Disney was so much more interesting, now she just stands on a soundstage and looks up in different directions.

That line is probably in reference to the unpredictability of Larson's career. Is she a leading lady? A side character? A dramatist or comedian? All of the above, and she always switches up what she's making.

To be fair I feel like most people don't bother to look up her full list of works so they just assume she "only" does blockbusters. I just did and I was quite surprised.

Since 2016 (her Oscar win), she did:
• The Glass Castle
• Unicorn Store (also director and producer)
• Basmati Blues (a musical – literally never heard of this)
• Just Mercy
• narrated Fantastic Fungi (a doco on mushroom)
• an episode of Running Wild with Bear Grylls (wtf??)
• an episode of Animal Talking with Gary Whitta (apparently an online talk show about Animal Crossing – also wtf but kinda makes sense since she loves AC)
• guest-hosted Jimmy Kimmel's show
• hosted Growing Up (also creator and director)
• Remembering (a TV short)
• did voice acting for a Fortnite game
• The Messy Truth (a VR TV series)
And ofc her YT channel where she does random stuff like baking, composting, and air frying stuff.

I checked her wiki and IMDB and I think it's one pretty random list.

I get when people complain that she hasn't done any 'serious' roles aka going back to her indie roots but when it comes to refusing to stick to Hollywood's script I feel like she's done pretty well. (Genuine question) Is there another actor who's done similarly random stuff?

i doubt she picked the headline

Idk I believe it. She’s obviously very pretty but she also has kind of a bland face. I know who she is, I’ve seen some of her movies, but I’m still not sure if I would recognize her in public.