“I was worried about my body and my face and my voice. I felt plagued that I didn’t dress or talk the same way as other people,” she said.
At the age of six, she expressed interest in becoming an actress. When she was 7, Brie Larson experienced a traumatic period of her life when her parents got divorced. Soon after the divorce, Brie, her sister and her mother moved to Los Angeles to fulfill her acting career.
They were very poor and lived in a very small apartment. Her mother always tried to hide her pain from her children. Brie Larson admitted that her mom used to put her hand over her mouth so as not to wake her children up with her guttural sobs.
Brie Larson had huge difficulties trying to win meaningful roles in Hollywood. She said: “I wasn’t pretty enough to be the pretty girl, I wasn’t plain enough to play the Nerds. Nobody knew what to do with me.”
Brie Larson was really desperate to land fulfilling roles. She spent much of her time making independent movies and struggling for money. Her path to success was really slow. The year 2013 was the first time she ever led a major motion picture with the drama ‘Short Term 12.’
Her performance in the movie made it clear that Brie Larson is a very talented actress. But the defining role of her career came in 2015 with the movie ‘Room.’ Her amazing performance earned Larson a ‘Best Actress Oscar’ award. It as also opened doors for many exciting projects in the future.
Brie Larson’s role in ‘Room’ brought her Oscar glory, but little did she know that she prepared for that role 20 years ago. Brie used the painful experience from her parents divorce to prepare for her role in ‘Room.’
This motivational success story shows that behind every successful person, there are thousands of failures that no one can see. Brie Larson’s career path wasn’t easy. She had a difficult childhood and felt insecure.
“I’m still feeling insecure all the time and most of my life has been massive failures. It’s just that now we only really talk about successes. I failed for like 99% of my career,” she said.
Millions of people rest in their graves with their big dreams buried with them because they believed in the boundaries that others set for them. They continued to make excuses to support the idea that they are losers, that they’re not good enough and they can’t be successful. Don’t let that person be you.
Failures are part of life. Giving yourself a chance to try and fail is way better than not doing anything at all. The universe has lots of opportunities for those who are brave enough to survive the training. Face the failures, overcome what scares you the most, let go of your fears, believe that you can become the person that you want to be and start working on your dreams today.
