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Brie Larson Shares That Being Part of "13 Going on 30" Is What Inspired Her To Purse Film Directing

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Inspiration can come from anywhere, and a stimulating environment that can certainly help blossom an interest in film-making can oftentimes be being part of a film set.

Which is exactly what happened to Brie Larson when she was shooting the film 13 Going on 30, and Larson was around 13 years-old herself.

On April 22, while at the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere of Avengers: Endgame, Larson stopped to talk with Entertainment Tonight and shared the defining moment of wanting to direct, and that was being part of the 2004 film 13 Going on 30, which starred Jennifer Garner and in which Larson played one of the Six Chicks, the popular clique of mean girls that ruled middle school.

As Larson shared, being part of 13 Going on 30 was "the moment when I realized that I really wanted to direct."

"I remember paying a lot of attention to where the camera was and the camera moves, thinking about how I would have cut it together and then seeing the movie and seeing how it differed from what I thought."



And Larson definitely learned well, as she went on to make her two short films Weighting and The Arm, which she both co-directed and co-wrote and the latter even earned her a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012.

Larson also recently made her solo and feature film directorial debut with Unicorn Store, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and was released on April 5 in Netflix, and Larson produced and starred in with a talented cast that includes Joan Cusack, Bradley Whitford, Karan Son, and her Captain Marvel co-star Samuel L. Jackson (no Goose included!)

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So I guess I have yet another reason to love 13 Going on 30 dearly: it inspired Brie Larson to want to become a film director, for which I am grateful.

Sincerely, Dora Goto, an enthusiast of female filmmaker stories

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