Brie Larson Says She Hasn't Found the Balance Between Work and Health: 'The Rules Always Change' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Brie Larson in Los Angeles in 2024.Photo:Amanda Edwards/Getty

Amanda Edwards/Getty

Brie Larsonsaid that she’s still struggling to find a balance between her work and her health — especially when she takes on emotionally and physically grueling roles.

But, as she said, “I really love what I do, and I love my job. So if you want to look at a pie chart, I’m working a lot, yeah, but I love my work so much, like, it is my life.”

Brie Larson as Captain Marvel in “The Marvels.".Laura Radford/Marvel

Laura Radford/Marvel

“Making movies and being an artist is my life. That’s what makes my life. So I don’t feel like there’s a true balance to be had, because they all kind of live together,” she said.

“Once I start filming, we’re getting up before the sun is up, we’re going to bed after the sun is down. And so the thing about filming is that the schedule is the schedule. Sometimes you have the ability to move things, but a lot of the time it’s like, the day is happening, and you’re filming whether you’re ready or not, whether you feel awake at 6 a.m. or not. It’s gonna happen.”

She told PEOPLE that she’s been taking steps to ensure she stays healthy, sharing that she’s been focusing on “gut health stuff " which she says has “been a huge game changer.” It’s one of the reasons she is collaborating with health and wellness supplement company Thorne.

“The secret gift that you get from taking some of the [supplements] that I’m taking, is — you don’t even realize it until you start hearing people talking about how they’re feeling — they’re getting a cold, and you’re not, and you’re like, oh, maybe what I’m doing is working.”

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Brie Larson in Italy in 2024.Daniele Venturelli/Daniele Venturelli/Getty

Daniele Venturelli/Daniele Venturelli/Getty

She’s been paying attention to her mental health as well, telling PEOPLE how she tries to draw a line between her character and herself — especially when it’s anemotionally taxingrole, like the one she played in theThe Room, which earned her aBest Actress Academy Awardin 2016.

“You talk about it with your production team. Everybody knows, okay, Brie’s playing this role, she got to prepare this role. But the thing that I have to do that isn’t talked about is what I’m doing to support myself at the end of the day so that I don’t take any drama home, so that I’m not that character anymore, and that I’m comfortable, sleeping well — all of that, and that’s my responsibility.”

“It has become more of a two-pronged system. There’s okay, ‘How am I gonna play this part?’ And it’s like, ‘How am I not going to play this part?’ “

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“If you don’t figure out a way to have a ritual of that and support yourself at the end of every single day,” Larson said, “One day, you wake up and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, I feel confused.’ “

source: people.com