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Andrew Scott and Brie Larson are opening up about their careers. The 47-year-old actor and the 34-year-old actress sat down together as part of Variety‘s Actors on Actors series. During the discussion, the two discussed the challenges in their career, taking on roles in Lessons in Chemistry and Ripley, comparisons to previous films, rejection, and much more. Keep reading to find out more… Brie, on Lessons in Chemistry: “I’m proud of what we achieved in the time that we did. I don’t have a connection to when it goes out in the world; it just feels like then it’s not about me anymore—it’s just images and feelings. I am proud of how much we said in the show. I felt like we got a lot in it, and a really amazing group of people that worked on it. And I loved playing her.” Andrew, on the challenges of playing Tom Ripley: “I adored the film The Talented Mr. Ripley— the [Anthony] Minghella movie with Matt Damon and Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow and all those amazing people. But mercifully, I hadn’t seen it in a very long time. One of the first conversations I had with Steven Zaillian, our writer-director, was ‘Why?’ And he had such a singular vision for it. He wanted it a very particular way. I was worried that I was too old and blah, blah, blah—I had just a very specific idea that was based on the film. I had to remind myself that that film was also a reiteration of something: There was another version with Alain Delon before. There were loads of different ones. So it has been reinterpreted a lot. And I feel like it’s very important that he said, ‘We want to age the characters up.’ And he was talking about this very particular kind of noirish black-and-white vision that he had. And that made me feel very comfortable. And I always think that it’s important, because it happens in the theater so much—if it was a Shakespeare character, thousands of people have played one character. I always find that really interesting. I think the response, I suppose, is to be respectful, but not too reverent. What’s the point of doing it if you’re going to do it exactly the same way?” Brie, on the evolution of her career: “I had to face myself in so many different ways; that’s part of the thing that I actually seek now. I mean, I’m so grateful that I had so much rejection growing up. It’s wild! I very much had a slow burn in my career. I’d get close to things, so I knew that I had something, but I wasn’t booking, or I’d book one job a year or something—just enough to give me hope. It gave me so much experience so that when I was given the opportunities, I was truly ready for it. I never had a time on set where I was like, ‘Oh, gosh. This is bigger than what I understand.’ It was always, like, well paced.”
