!["I grew up with a single mom in a small apartment, and I realize this was a way to [honor] my mother," best actress nominee Brie Larson said on the Oscars red carpet. (Associated Press)](https://twt-thumbs.washtimes.com/media/image/2016/02/28/BrieLarson_c0-301-2293-1637_s885x516.jpg?ea0dea326a9bd7fce4f72da0771c6889e03b61be)
Best actress nominee Brie Larson, star of “Room,” said that making the film, about a woman and her child held captive, gave her a better understanding and appreciation of single mothers, including her own mother.
“I grew up with a single mom in a small apartment, and I realize this was a way to [honor] my mother,” Miss Larson said on the Oscars red carpet.
“There’s so many things you can’t possibly understand” as a child, she said.
• Eric Althoff can be reached at twt@washingtontimes.com.
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