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Brie Larson spent 2020 mixing content for her YouTube channel, but now she is ready to return to the lab at Apple +. According Variety, a Captain Marvel the actress will be the executive producer and star in Chemistry classes, a new period drama based on the debut novel by author and scientific writer Bonnie Garmus; the book is scheduled to be released in the spring of next year. Susannah Grant, the 2000s Oscar-nominated writer Erin Brockovich, will write the series.
Set in the early 1960s, Chemistry lessons will follow Elizabeth Zott de Larson, a scientist who discovers that her career has been hampered by unmarried parenting and the uncompromising gender expectations of the time, while she pursues a profession considered most appropriate for a woman: presenting a cooking show on television. Taking the opportunity, Zott reportedly “sets out to teach a nation of forgotten housewives – and men who are suddenly listening – much more than recipes, all the time longing for a return to their true love: science.”
According Variety, The Apple + drama previously announced by Larson, based on the memories of 2019 Undercover: maturing at the CIA, by former secret agent Amaryllis Fox, is now on hold indefinitely. So it looks like Brie will be saving the world in a more discreet, “knowledge is power” way, rather than her typical “preventing a global catastrophe against the clock” business.