BRIE LARSON back chat

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LAST FASHION DISASTER

I used to wear a lot of those really chunky Vans shoes with Strawberry Shortcake laces. I was like a size-10 shoe at age 11, so I looked like a giant “L”. I feel like at this point in my life I could ironically bring it back, and it gives me a lot of pleasure, like I can own my awkwardness.

LAST THING I TOOK FROM A SET

Yeah, I always steal something from every set. From The Glass Castle I took a set of the castle plans and an old photo of the house they lived in. I document a lot of things and organise them in catalogues just to help me remember. It probably looks like trash to everybody else, but it means something to me.

LAST TIME I WAS STARSTRUCK

I hung out with the cast of Star Wars last night, and I was really nervous and super-starstruck. It took me maybe three hours to not be shaking, and then I was OK. I usually just don’t talk; I just go into listening and nodding mode.

LAST MOMENT OF BLISS

There was a really nice moment when I was just staring out the window today at this pretty tree. And I’m jet-lagged, so I could just stare at a tree for 30 minutes, and sometimes that’s all I really want. Bliss can be really simple.

LAST INJURY

I kind of have a fear of ranch dressing. I just don’t like it. In eighth grade, this kid was chasing me with ranch dressing on his hand, and I tripped and fell and broke my arm. Now it’s something I can easily avoid; it doesn’t really hold me back in my day-to-day life. Condiments are just shady to me.

The actress, 28, brings Jeannette Walls’s bestselling 2005 memoir to life in “The Glass Castle”, out now on DVD and Blu-ray.

On what attracted Larson to play Walls in a film adaption of her book, she told WHO, “Ultimately, what I love about it is that it’s about humans being survivors.” Larson won an Oscar for Best Actress in 2015 with her portrayal as a traumatised but...