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Brie Larson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0488953/board/flat/235689072?d=235689072&p=1#235689072):

Outside of Short Term 12, she hasn't gotten nearly enough leading roles. She's proven how good she is in the Spectacular Now, Scott Pilgrim and the aforementioned ST12. I like Jennifer Lawrence as much as the next person, but Brie Larson is the best young actress in the world right now. She should be the one getting the Oscar bait roles and major franchises.

I know she's got her whole career ahead of her, but it's still a great actress being ignored by Hollywood.

I dunno if she's being ignored or if she purposely tries to steer clear of the more mainstream stuff. Off the top of my head, the most mainstream role I can recall was her role in 21 Jump Street a few years back and it wasn't as though she had a particularly memorable part. Her next release is a movie titled Basmati Blues and the basic plot is that she and her father, played by Scott Bakula, are scientists who create genetically engineered rice and are sent to India to sell it to rural farmers. The movie is described as a musical and romantic comedy. Based simply on that information, people aren't gonna be waiting in line at midnight to buy tickets to see it.

She's recently finished filming a remake of the 1974 film The Gambler. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Michael K. Williams and Jessica Lange. If the plot is anything along the lines of the original, I don't see huge box office returns. That's just the initial, gut feeling I have. Doesn't mean that it won't be a good movie, just like a movie with a $100 million budget can't be great or is all about explosions or special effects. However, while critics and industry insiders may love the more artsy stuff, the artsy stuff doesn't pay the bills or keep the big studio in the black.

Maybe she personally enjoys being more of a "fringe" actress, independent films may not generate the sort of money or publicity, but they can afford a lot more freedom from an artistic point of view.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/10-Young-Actresses-Who-Could-Next-Meg-Ryan-70758-p10.html

Brie Larson

Brie Larson is probably best recognized for her dramatic work, and rightfully so. She’s been incredible in recent indie dramas like Short Term 12 and The Spectacular Now, but she’s also no stranger to comedy and has proven herself to be one of the most versatile young actors working right now. From the bittersweet variety, in The United States of Tara, to the likes of Community and 21 Jump Street, she’s already appeared in a few rom-coms, like Don Jon and Judd Apatow’s upcoming Trainwreck. Larson has an undeniable charm and an instant congeniality that serves her well in these roles. You just like her, which is one of the most marketable qualities Meg Ryan brought to her roles in romantic comedy. No matter who she played, no matter the story, you just like her, and that goes a long way to connecting with the audience, and Larson has that, or at least something very similar.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/brie-larson-is-ready

Her breakthrough performance in Room has everyone talking about an Oscar and signals the end of her relative anonymity. Can Brie Larson survive becoming the next Jennifer Lawrence without losing her balance?

She took a small role as a manic pixie dream ex-girlfriend in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. She’s still singing, and pouting, and wearing a short skirt, but it was enough to establish her as something of a nerd fetish object, as opposed to a piece of Disney bubblegum. It might not have been the “opposite” way, but it was another way — at least until her breakthrough, at age 20, as Toni Collette’s punkish daughter in the Showtime series United States of Tara. Collette won all the praise for her portrayal of a mother with dissociative identity disorder attempting to keep her “alters” at bay, but Larson — in a uniform of plaid pants, dog chains, and combat boots — gives a performance that places her alongside My So-Called Life’s Angela in the pantheon of fully realized onscreen teenagers.

Tara helped earn her a slew of supporting roles in mainstream projects, playing younger than her early twenties self — as an angry high schooler in Rampart, a hot high schooler in 21 Jump Street, a hot and smart high schooler in The Spectacular Now, and a silent high schooler in Don Jon. In 2012, Larson made a short film with her two best friends called The Arm — a clever puzzle piece of a film, with the quick montages and overlapping dialogue of French New Wave and New American Cinema.

Her time to breakout will come I'm sure of it, she doesn't seem the type to want to play the ditzy sexy temptress and be forgotten like Megan Fox or Jessica Alba.