{"id":50810,"date":"2017-09-21T00:19:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T00:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=50810"},"modified":"2017-09-21T00:19:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T00:19:01","slug":"unicorn-store-star-brie-larson-long-road-success-ive-failed-99-percent-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=50810","title":{"rendered":"‘Unicorn Store’ star Brie Larson on long road to success: ‘I’ve failed for 99 percent of my career’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brie Larson\u2018s ascent in recent years has reached near-mythical proportions. There was her breakout role in 2013\u2019s phenomenal but criminally underseen drama Short Term 12<\/em>; two years later the Sacramento native was riding a steady wave of buzz and accolades all the way to an Academy Award win for Room<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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This year alone, Larson, now 27, has already starred in three movies (Kong: Skull Island<\/em>, Free Fire<\/em>, and The Glass Castle<\/em>), is prepping for Marvel\u2019s first female-led superhero outing, Captain Marvel<\/em> (2019), and somehow, some way, found the time to not only act in but also make her directorial debut with the whimsical new comedy Unicorn Store<\/em>, which premiered last week at the Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

But her journey has not been all unicorns and rainbows. \u201cI started auditioning when I was 7, and I wasn\u2019t getting anything until like two years ago,\u201d Larson told Yahoo Entertainment at TIFF, where she was joined by costar Mamoudou Attie. \u201cMaybe I\u2019d get one job a year so my IMDb looks sort of relatively healthy\u2026 But I was broke my whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tapping into that struggle is what allowed Larson to connect to Kit, the down-and-out dreamer she plays in Unicorn Store<\/em>. At the onset of the coming-of-age story, scripted by Samantha McIntyre, the free-spirited, creatively rebellious Kit flunks of out art school and is forced to move back in with her parents (the reliably entertaining Bradley Whitford and Joan Cusack). She\u2019s in a full-fledged quarter-life crisis, toiling away in the vanilla confines of an advertising agency\u2019s office space, when she receives an invitation from a mysterious, eccentric man (Samuel L. Jackson) promising her a real live unicorn.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still feeling insecure all the time, and most of my life has been massive failures. It\u2019s just that now we only really talk about the successes,\u201d Larson said. \u201cI\u2019ve failed for like 99 percent of my career. It\u2019s only in the last couple of years where I\u2019ve had a few successes and now suddenly I seem like a success story.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actress has indeed worked steadily over the past decade, with supporting roles in films like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World<\/em> (2010), Rampart<\/em>(2011), 21 Jump Street<\/em> (2012), and The Spectacular Now<\/em> (2013). But as recently as 2015, the same year she wowed audiences in Room<\/em>, she had a low-billed role in the Amy Schumer vehicle Trainwreck<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And what her r\u00e9sum\u00e9 doesn\u2019t indicate is all the projects she couldn\u2019t close on. \u201cI don\u2019t even think I can be honest with myself with how many auditions I\u2019ve gone on my life and almost all of them I didn\u2019t get,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about tens of thousands of auditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The clout Larson has compiled over the past few years no doubt put her in a better position to make her debut behind the camera with Unicorn Store<\/em>, which she\u2019s been working on since wrapping production on The Glass Castle<\/em>last summer.<\/p>\n

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