If you can recall, in early 2014, Lakshmi Manchu shot for an independent Hollywood film, Basmati Blues, in which she shared screen with global actors like Brie Larson, Donald Sutherland and Scott Bakula.
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Best supporting actor had been a little more of a race with some experts predicting a win for Sylvester Stallone in “Creed”, but Mark Rylance took home the trophy for “Bridge of Spies”.
“Miss #brielarson how proud am I. You make dreams feel possible”.
Larson plays Ma, a kidnapped woman who is trapped in an 11-by-11-foot garden shed with her young son Jack, who has never been outside.
“The thing that I love about movie-making is how many people it takes to make it”, Larson said moments after Eddie Redmayne opened the envelope and announced her name to the Dolby Theatre audience. The now 26-year-old then landed the role of Courtney Enders, the sister of Beverly Mitchell’s Erica, in Disney Channel’s 2003 original movie Right on Track.
“For me, Room is an opportunity to relive an aspect of my childhood that I hadn’t put a ton of thought into”, Larson said.
Larson also made a point to recall an unhappier moment in her life, when she struggled with what she perceived to be sexism in her industry.
She had a range of roles as a child and teen, before being cast in the Toni Colette comedy-drama United States of Tara, as the title character’s daughter.
Miss Larson went into the night favored, as she had won the Golden Globe for dramatic actress (Miss Lawrence won for comic actress) and the British Oscar.
Room also received three other Oscar nominations for best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay.
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Writer Emma Donoghue told The Wall Street Journal that she meant to show the “journey out” of the mother and son.
