After appearing in the continuation of the massively popular heritage “Top Gun: Maverick” in 2022 as Lieutenant Robert “Bob” Floyd and before joining the Marvel cinematographic universe as Robert Reynolds, also known as Sentry, in “Thunderbolts *”, “Lewis Pullman played the love interest of Brie Larson. Yes Captain Marvel were romantically involved in an Apple TV + series entitled “Chemistry lessons”.
In the mini-series based on the best-selling novel of the same name of Bonnie Garmus, Pullman (whose father is, you guessed it, Bill Pullman) portrayed Calvin Evans, a brilliant scientist working at the Hastings Research Institute in California. When Calvin meets the Laboratory technician Elizabeth Zott (Larson), he is blown away by his scientific genius, only to learn that she has never obtained her doctorate and cannot get into the ranks of the Institute simply because she is a woman. Before a long time, the two are personally And Professionally involved … But at the beginning of history, the tragedy strikes. While Calvin came out for a race with the dog of the single couple, six thirty, he loses the leash of the dog and is involved in a traffic accident. After Calvin’s death, Elizabeth realizes that she is pregnant and, as a single mother hoping to work as a legitimate scientist, gives birth to a girl who inherits both and Calvin of Calvin’s considerable intelligence.
In the end, Pullman only appears in two episodes while he is alive, but reappears in flashbacks all along, including the episode of the program “Book of Calvin”, which fulfills his missing life story. Pullman is undoubtedly excellent in the series – he even wink at the Emmy for the best support actor in a limited series for the role – when did the criticisms think of his “chemistry” with Captain Marvel herself?
Based on the data, criticisms really liked chemistry lessons
“Always on several problems with a lot button while benefiting a lot from a perfect pinch of Brie Larson,” lessons in the ambitious ingredients of chemistry add up to satisfy entertainment, “said Rotten Tomatoes in his critical consensus for the mini-series, which gives him a global critical note of 86%. Regarding individual critics.
Eliana Dockterman perfected the central twinning of Lewis Pullman and Brie Larson as Calvin and Elizabeth in his magazine for Time magazine, writing: “The best part of” lessons in chemistry? “The show actually allows his prospects to have a chemistry.” Angie Han also congratulated him on the Hollywood Reporter, saying: “It is worth returning, thanks to an endearing distribution, a full -minded dialogue and easily digestible themes.” Cristina Escobar from Rogerebert.
In Slate, Laura Miller thought that the series had improved on source equipment, writing: “Thanks to solid scripts and a handful of sensitive performance, the series is richer and more thoughtful than the book.”
Lewis Pullman said he liked to work with Brie Larson on chemistry lessons
Lewis Pullman has proven himself as an incredibly charismatic and talented actor throughout his career so far, but I must admit that, as a big fan of the original book, I particularly like his performance as Calvin in “lessons in chemistry”. In an interview concerning the mini-series with Cosmopolitan in November 2023, Pullman apologized for having made the public cry thanks to his death on the screen and revealed to the interviewer Emma Baty that he and Brie Larson had not read chemistry … but that all of this worked perfectly.
“We had no reading of chemistry for” lessons in chemistry “, admitted Pullman, apparently embracing the particular irony of this declaration. “We tried to build the scaffolding by a workshop of many things and not to be afraid to try to fail and land exactly what these two people who made such a magnet.
After saying that Larson – who was also an executive producer of the series – worked behind the scenes to ensure that the distribution feels welcome by starting the board game sessions between the catches with things like Boggle and Corphrase, Pullman has definitely broken why the romance of Elizabeth is so irresistible Calvin and Elizabeth is so irresistible And So anchored.
“It is a very fresh romance, and it is these very clumsy people. They do not meet many social standards, and they do not like most people, or they do not get along with most people, which makes the likelihood that they find someone who hears decently, and even less falling is almost improbable. Humanity.”
“Thunderbolts *” is now in theaters, and “lessons in chemistry” is streaming in its entirety on Apple TV +.
