Gun-Toting Brie Larson Caught in Shootout in ‘Free Fire’ Trailer

She’s a departure for Larson.

From there, the film’s legacy is well-documented – an Oscar win for Larson with three other nominations including Best Picture. That’s pretty much what happens in Free Fire.

“They were just more vocal”, said Copley, whose first person-perspective thriller Hardcore Henry screened in Midnight Madness previous year. The movie was done but I was in deep, searching, trying to remember who I was before this movie.

At that time, Larson was a hard-scrabble actress cutting her teeth since childhood in supporting parts in movies or TV – the most notable as a rebellious daughter on Showtime’s short-lived series United States of Tara.

A24 picked up distribution for the film in 2016, “Free Fire” was directed by Ben Wheatley.

“If you’re going to get up there on that stage and thank the people that got you to that moment, I wouldn’t have been there without Telluride and I wouldn’t have been there without TIFF”, she said. It’ll be a big action year for Larson, who will also star in Kong: Skull Island that year. But the two won’t be meeting up.

“It’s really cool”, said Larson, the day after Free Fire’s premiere.

They do keep in touch via email.

Another future role of hers that subverts the female on-screen stereotype?

Larson’s character is the lone female but takes and delivers just as many hits as the guys. We’ll find out just how amusing gunplay can be in 2017.

Director Ben enjoyed huge success past year with his film High Rise, starring Tom Hiddleston.

“So everything fell together and now I’m doing it and now I’m excited”.

“It’s a very physical film”, she added. “I think being the only woman in the film, like she was ― she had a lot to deal with, with a lot of testosterone around her”.