Sharing Secrets and Avoiding The Dark Side with Brie Larson

Well, Craig Ferguson and I are in love.

He keeps having you on.

You've been on his show more times than anybody in the history of the show.

You have no idea what you're gonna talk about.

So what's up with the two of you?

An intense connection.

What's up, guys?

Nicki Novak here in the Young Hollywood Studio with Rampart star Brie Larson.

Hi.

Hi.

You started acting when you were basically in the womb.

Yeah.

And you said that you longed to have like a normal job.

Yeah.

I mean there's something romantic about it, about the consistency of it, of a nine to five job instead of like the insanity of what I've chosen.

I had a interesting experience a couple weeks ago where this um this crazy man walked into this uh diner that I always go to and he thought that I was his wife and started ranting at me and and this waiter came and basically saved my life.

Like called the cops on this guy and got him arrested.

Oh, he was acting crazy.

It wasn't cute old man charming crazy.

No, no.

I mean it was amazing, but it was not necessarily cute.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

What did he do?

Um, he wanted to sit in my booth with me and I told him no, that he that he couldn't, that he was making me uncomfortable, and he stood up and started screaming at me.

It was like, "You did this at pavilions."

This waiter Albert is my night in shining armor and I was in love with him after this experience because he told him to get out.

So I filled out the application.

Oh, my This is a movie, Brie.

You must write this.

You're a writer.

You must write this story.

I have to write it.

I'm giving away all my stories.

Um, and so I filled out the application but I have no previous work experience so I just made up a fake resume and and had to sheepishly tell my mother that um in case DuPars calls that she's the manager of L & L Hawaiian Barbecue.

You wrote and directed the Arm.

Yeah, I did it with my two best friends.

We there was three of us.

We wrote and directed it together.

And it was something about texting or

Yeah, it's about um it's basically about text messaging and this new form of technology and how it can be misconstrued.

It's a dark comedy.

I feel like there's one thing I cannot stand is when guys text me for dates.

I know, talking on the phone is so nice.

I mean the long form, writing letters is so nice.

I and I know the guys that argue that texting is writing a letter.

That is not okay.

No.

That's not someone to date.

Please.

Absolutely not.

So how was Sundance for you?

It was crazy because I've I'd never been before.

Um so to get in with a something that I wrote and directed was really an honor and exciting and I didn't know what I was getting into at all.

And it's just it's my favorite things in the world.

It's like nature and movies.

So you're in Rampart.

I am.

With Woody Harrelson.

Mhm.

Who plays your dad.

Are you asking for more vegetables?

Only verbly because I like eating the steak.

I bet you're curious about that artwork you have on the wall there.

What is that What does that mean with that collage?

He's gonna give me his answer.

It's just like little bits of paper and you like cut them out and you like glue them together and you like make another picture.

Okay.

So you have like a man's head and and a woman's heel digging into his head and

You have eyes.

It's great.

It's so funny because I read this about you that you were homeschooled and growing up that you said you were sort of like you never did anything wrong.

You were like the good girl.

And yet in United States of Tara you play like a lot of these little bit darker roles.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean I guess it's a way to to live it, right?

Or maybe maybe that's why I never got to the dark side because I'm able to like get it out in this other way.

I didn't really have any friends.

All I wanted to do was go to concerts.

Is that your rebellion kind of thing?

Yeah, I think I I wonder if maybe that's why I never have gone to the dark side because I'm able to like get it out in this other way.

So who do you listen to?

Like what's on your iPod?

I really like digging deep into like psychedelic music.

I like to go into like garage punk.

I like sixties sort of like rare stuff.

21 Jump Street.

Mhm.

Was Johnny Depp is he gonna be in the movie making a cameo?

You're not allowed to say.

I mean that's a highly controversial question that I don't think I can go there.

I'm taking that as a yes.

No.

No.

I mean it would be cool.

Wouldn't it?

It would be.

We're great.

Mhm.

See, she's got all these secrets that she's keeping from us.

Don't don't tell anyone.

We have a mutual crush on somebody.

Or maybe not really a crush.

Who?

For a good reason.

Well, Craig Ferguson and I love.

He keeps having you on.

You've been on his show more times than anybody in the history of the show.

I know, but it's really just because we run into each other and he goes, "Hey, you want to be on the show?"

And I say, "Of course."

Which I think he's stalking you personally.

I don't think I I think if you see him at DuPars

He was the guy at DuPars that I've forgotten to mention.

Oh, right.

Well, now it all makes perfect sense.

He's amazing.

He's so quick.

He moves so fast and you have no idea what you're gonna talk about.

So what's up with the two of you?

An intense connection.

One of your first jobs in the business, you worked on Leno.

What's with you and the talk show host?

I don't know.

I don't I don't get it.

Do you have a crush on me?

I kind of do.

So you did skits on Leno when you were a kid?

Yeah, that was my first job.

We came to Los Angeles from Sacramento, had maybe four hundred dollars to our name and um tried to get a job and that was the first thing.

They wanted someone who looked like they would be in a fake Barbie commercial.

Was you?

What did you have to do?

It was Malibu Mudslide Barbie.

There was a lot of mudslides happening in Malibu at that time.

So it was this big beautiful doll house and this I happily playing with these dolls and then there was this huge vat of mud and we like dumped it and all the Barbies flew out.

You've had a good life, Brie Larson.

I mean it's been exciting.

Yeah.

No doubt about it.

Well, thank you so much for coming here.

You're great.

And you'll be back on this couch.

Yes.

Like Craig, we're gonna bring you back.

Bring me back.

Bring me back.