Brie Larson & BFF Courtney McBroom Compete in Party Hosting Skills

Architectural Digest

Today, Architectural Digest is challenging 'Marvel' icon Brie Larson and her best friend, Courtney McBroom, to test their party hosting skills. Who can make the best French 75 without a recipe? Who is the best at floral arranging? Watch to see which BFF will be crowned the winner of this party-hosting showdown.  Brie Larson and Courtney McBroom's cookbook, Party People, publishes October 21: https://sites.prh.com/party-people

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00:00We challenged best friends and professional party hosts Brie Larson and Courtney McBroom

00:05to test their entertaining skills in five increasingly difficult tasks.

00:09Each challenge is worth one point. The person with the most points at the end wins.

00:15Cheers!

00:19I know what's going to happen. I'm going to win. I already know that I'm going to win.

00:22Actually, you're about to find out.

00:23Ha ha ha. This is not going to be good.

00:34First challenge, make a French 75 without the recipe. First to complete the task will hit the buzzer.

00:41How do you guys feel about this? Who do you think is going to win?

00:44As the resident chef, I would hope. Let me put it this way. If Brie wins, it's because I taught her well.

00:50Well, you never taught me how to do this. What does 75 mean?

00:54Well, maybe you should read our cookbook because there's a recipe in there.

00:57I didn't read that.

01:10I'm going to go with this. Do you know what the deal is? I'm not even the mixologist in this house.

01:17I can't get this open. Oh, too bad.

01:19It's a little flick top. It's a little flick top.

01:22Oh, see, I always do freshly squeezed juice. Thank you. So I wouldn't know that.

01:29Me, I'm trash. I know exactly how to use a plastic lemon.

01:34I read once in a sauce book to just do equal parts, so I'm going to do that with my sauce drink.

01:40It's going to be shaking when the apple is horrible, girl.

01:46Where's the sauce?

01:47I stole it! I stole it!

01:49Haha, because I couldn't find mine.

01:51You didn't make enough liquid.

02:00Yes, I did.

02:01What do you mean? That's not really anything.

02:03Help me!

02:12I'm scared of this part.

02:14No! No, McBroom, no!

02:16Oh no!

02:26What in the hell?

02:27Oh.

02:28It's not my finest twist, but it's a twist nonetheless.

02:31It's so good.

02:42Care to have a drink?

02:44Here, you taste yours and I'll taste mine.

02:46Oh wait, no.

02:47The other way around.

02:48Yeah.

02:48Let's taste each other's.

02:53Excellent.

02:56Yours actually tastes nice.

02:57Yours does, too!

02:58Really?

03:01Mine's a completely different drink.

03:05They're both good.

03:06Mine is much more gin-forward.

03:10I would argue that, in many cases, she did win because she made an excellent drink.

03:15It's just not the drink that we were trying to make.

03:19Cheers.

03:19This one's all you.

03:20Love you.

03:22This is good.

03:22Yeah.

03:26We're very equally matched.

03:28We both love the art of photography.

03:32Second challenge.

03:33Set up a Polaroid camera and take a selfie.

03:36First to finish, we'll hit the buzzer.

03:37First to finish, we'll hit the buzzer.

03:41Ah, you're such an asshole!

03:45No!

03:49I just...

03:51Stop!

03:52Oh my god, I don't even know how to open these.

03:56This is the hardest part.

03:57Which way is it?

03:58God damn, I'm supposed to go.

03:59Oh, does that count?

04:08No.

04:16Gotta turn it on.

04:17Well done!

04:29Well done!

04:36Oh no!

04:39Oh, this is real!

04:41Third challenge.

04:42Assemble the most pieces of mismatched Tupperware in two minutes.

04:46Keep your hands up.

04:47Don't you dare touch that box until she says...

04:50Oh, Miss...

04:50Rules all of a sudden!

04:51Someone's here to follow the rules!

04:54Yeah.

04:55Rules were meant to be broken.

04:56You know that.

04:56That's very true.

04:57I agree.

04:58I know you do.

04:59Okay.

04:59My Tupperware cabinet is very well organized.

05:02Why?

05:03Because...

05:03Oh, now I'm scared.

05:04She's really going to do well on this one.

05:06Mine is not.

05:08That's the point.

05:10It's about the journey.

05:15That's the wrong thing.

05:23This is way harder than I thought.

05:27We can't hear you.

05:29First two of us, Tupperware!

05:33Look at the babies.

05:34These are so cute.

05:35Look at that.

05:37That one already has a lid.

05:38Look at that.

05:38The whole family is together.

05:40Oh my god, I love them.

05:42I'm so glad they found each other.

05:45Ha!

05:46Everything is wrong.

05:47It's the wrong way.

05:48It's the wrong side.

05:50I need to win this one, guys.

05:51No, I need to win!

05:52Everything's on the line!

05:53I need to win!

05:57It's so cute!

05:58What fits in there?

05:59I love this little baby.

05:59In what situation?

06:00You can put cigarettes in there.

06:02I was thinking fried capers, but yeah.

06:03These are good.

06:05Oh, there it is.

06:06There it is.

06:09Oh, now.

06:12What the fuck?

06:14Why can I not find the right square?

06:18You have the time.

06:22How many did you get?

06:23Seventeen.

06:26Uh, I did very close to that.

06:29Looks like Olding Broom won this one.

06:31Well played.

06:32Good game, good game, good game, good game, good game.

06:33Good game, good game.

06:35I can't wait for us to cry about this.

06:36Remember the good old days, like five to seven years from now.

06:40Have a nice French 7500 straight from my bar and weep a little bit about the time that you kicked

06:49my ass at the Tupperware game.

06:51Take some Polaroids of it.

06:53Next!

06:57Fourth challenge.

06:58Recreate the example floral arrangement in two minutes.

07:01Best recreation wins.

07:03Okay, well let's see what happens.

07:11I love that we're both starting with the sunflowers.

07:13That must mean that...

07:14That's right.

07:15That's the correct thing to do.

07:17That must mean that we're doing this right.

07:18Want some drink pizza?

07:22Sit down here.

07:22Oh, uh-huh.

07:23Well...

07:24Well...

07:26Oh no!

07:28Oh no!

07:29I didn't think it was going to be easy.

07:34It is most certainly harder than I thought it was going to be.

07:38Oh my god, Bree's kicking my ass.

07:40I just looked over to hers for the first time.

07:42She's like...

07:44Okay, well I guess flower arrangements aren't necessarily my thing.

07:48Oh my god.

07:50Why am I so bad at this?

07:51I'm just like awful at it.

07:54You're officially the flower person of party people.

08:06See, I actually mirrored this sort of droop here.

08:09Yeah.

08:09As you can see, her judges.

08:11I did none of that.

08:12The only thing that I regret is I wanted to count every poof

08:15and do the same amount of poof over here,

08:17but I was a little distracted with Courtney throwing things.

08:21This could be a little bit further to the right.

08:23We see how...

08:24I'm just saying.

08:25Yeah, no, totally.

08:26Thank you for that and I appreciate the criticism.

08:30Next time I'll do better.

08:31I like yours.

08:32It's a more minimal take.

08:33It's like as if you made this, but it was a French 75.

08:39Yeah, exactly.

08:41Yeah, that's right.

08:43It's perfect.

08:46Okay, judges?

08:47I think it's free.

08:49Yeah.

08:49Okay, well, this is getting really juicy.

08:51It's a bit of a back and forth.

08:52This is why it takes a lot of different party people to do a party.

08:55Yeah.

09:00Fifth challenge.

09:01Remove the most Jenga pieces in two minutes without knocking over the tower.

09:06You ready to go down?

09:08Born ready.

09:08Yes.

09:09You were born ready to go down?

09:10I know.

09:10No, no, no, I was gone.

09:12I was born ready.

09:13Period.

09:14To go down.

09:15You go down.

09:16That's what I meant.

09:16You're going down.

09:17Yeah, we got to stack them on top.

09:25It's like a real Jenga, right?

09:29Oh my god.

09:32We should have gone over the rules before.

09:33You think that as professionals and as the creators of Jenga bread that we know how to play Jenga?

09:39Jenga.

09:40The whole deal is scary.

09:41Okay.

09:42I've got some serious structural issues happening.

09:48We're like breathing heavily.

09:49Are you counting that?

10:05I feel as though it should be counted.

10:08How was it?

10:08Good game, good game.

10:09Good game.

10:11With three total points, Brie is the winner.

10:14I'm feeling good even though I didn't win.

10:17You did win in the end.

10:18I won in my heart.

10:19Yeah.

10:20Party people, cheers.

10:22We don't say cheers.

10:23We say chairs.

10:24Chairs, y'all.

10:25Okay, so ready?

10:26One, two, three, go.

10:28Chairs!

10:33Let's get a picture.

10:40I'm actually surprised that I won.

10:42I do too.

10:42But I was humiliated in the Tupperware competition and that's going to sting for a bit.

10:46And that French 75 won.

10:48You were humiliated then too.

10:49I was also humiliated then as well.

10:52Thank you so much for reminding me.

10:55That's why we're such a great team.

10:56That's right.

10:57We remind each other of our shame.

11:00Well, that's all we got.

11:02Thank you all for watching.

11:03And we really hope you learned something from a couple of professional party people.

11:08That's right.

11:09That's us.

11:09Cheers.

11:10Cheers.

11:11Cheers.

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