Brie Larson on Her Wellness Routine, West End Debut at Thorne Event

Fresh off of her role as scientist-turned-cooking show host Elizabeth Zott in the Emmy-winning series “Lessons in Chemistry,” Brie Larson practiced another kind of alchemy with help from Thorne on Tuesday night. The supplement brand hosted its first mocktail mixology club at Apotheke in Manhattan, where Larson — a longtime Thorne customer — played bartender.

Ahead, the Oscar-winning actress chats with WWD about her wellness routine and her West End debut in Daniel Fish’s production of “Elektra,” which bows in 2025.

WWD: How did you discover Thorne?

Brie Larson: It was probably around 10 years ago. At a certain point my life, I was like, “I’m an adult woman, I need to take supplements.” Everybody had always said to me that Thorne is the brand that you can trust, because they’re the real deal, high quality. It was very fortuitous when they asked if I wanted to make mocktails with them. I was like, “I actually have a box of your product by my doorstep right now.”

WWD: How do you feel supplements benefit you?

B.L.: Hopefully, the way that I’m taxing my body is unique to me, and not everybody else is doing that, because I think it’s kind of a lot. I have to travel a lot, so for a press tour, it’s constantly going from different country to different country every three days. You arrive, and then the next day you’re doing interviews all day. On top of that, you’re around people; if you get sick, what are you gonna do? So you have to come up with systems to get through all of that when you’re asking so much of your body. Luckily, that’s not my life all the time, but it is my life sometimes.

Even without a press tour, I have to travel a lot when I’m working. It’s 14-hour days, and you’re getting up at 4 in the morning and you’re not getting a ton of sunlight, and it’s a lot of focus. It can also be really physical if you’re doing an action film. I feel better now than I did when I was younger, and I think that’s because I have a better idea as to how to support myself.

WWD: What are some key elements of your wellness routine?

B.L.: I’d say the most daily thing for me is vitamin D, because I’m in sound stages a lot of the time and it’s like, you think you’re fine, and then months in, you’re like, “Why am I crying? It’s because I am so vitamin D deficient and I need support.”

I’ll come up with a whole system, whether that’s greens powder or probiotic. I usually have something specific that I’m working on, or that feels like it’s being taxed extra. Then I make up a schedule for myself; sometimes in the morning I’ll load it up in a tea, or make a matcha and put a bunch of extra powders and supplements in it. Or it’s part of my nighttime; I’ll make a hot magnesium drink and sit in the bathtub and that’s how I’m ending my day. Depending on the job, I will come up with this sort of specific routine for it.

WWD: How does it feel to be making your West End debut next year?

B.L.: It feels real. I’m like, “Wow, I’m going to be live and vulnerable for many months.” I’m super excited. I love the team. I think what we’re doing is going to be really intense and exciting and new. It’s just another trust exercise for myself. I like doing things that make me challenge myself and sometimes you feel like, “Oh, maybe this is too much.” Then when you find a way on the other side of it, you’re just like, “I can do hard things, of course, why do I forget?” That’s what I like to do with my life, and so that’s what this is. It’s just another thing that I’m like, “Wow, that seems really hard, but I’m gonna do it.”