Captain Marvel‘s Brie Larson will be starring in and executive producing Apple’s drama series Lessons in Chemistry.
Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant, who was nominated for an Academy Award for the film, will write and executive produce the series. Also executive producing are Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan.
The series is based on the upcoming novel from Bonnie Garmus that’s set in the early 1960s and follows Elizabeth Zott (Larson), who dreams of being a scientist, but it’s put on hold in a society that thinks women should be doing domestic work. After Elizabeth finds herself pregnant, alone, and let go from her lab job, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show and teaches society more than just how to cook, while still holding onto her love of science.
Lessons in Chemistry will be the second Apple series Larson stars in. It was previously announced that she will be leading the drama series based on the real-life experience of CIA undercover operative Amaryllis Fox and her memoir, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA.
Larson’s best known for starring in films that include Captain Marvel and her Academy award-winning role in Room. She’s also been featured in Kong: Skull Island, The Spectacular Now, 21 Jump Street, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Avengers: Endgame, and Just Mercy. She’s set to star in Captain Marvel 2, which debuts in 2022.
