Brie Larson and Courtney McBroom Share the Best 2 Things to Bring to a Party, and They’re Surprisingly Inexpensive (Exclusive)

Being a bully partygoer is elemental and cheap, according to Brie Larson and Courtney McBroom.

The real-life besties stock their insights astir being a bully statement thrower successful Party People, a cookbook-slash-hosting guideline that comes retired Oct. 21. But nan brace person plentifulness of tips to being a cleanable guest.

“If you are nan type of personification that you person it ingrained successful you that you don't show up to a statement empty-handed, bring a container of ice, nary one's ever mad,” nan Oscar victor told PEOPLE astatine Better Homes & Gardens’ Red Plaid Café pop-up successful New York City connected Oct. 17.

The erstwhile Milk Bar culinary head added, “And besides butter.”

“No one's huffy astatine other butter,” Larson piped in, and McBroom agreed, “You ever request a small other butter.”

The worst impermanent has thing to do pinch thing tangible, nan friends agreed. “Bad cognition [is] nan worst point you tin bring,” Larson said, which McBroom seconded. 

“And a bad positive one,” nan cook added.

Larson and McBroom didn’t person to interest astir negativity souring their acquisition arsenic co-authors. “We some were frightened [going into it.] We're like, ‘We're friends. We don't want to messiness up our relationship by moving together.’ And if anything, it's conscionable made our relationship that overmuch stronger, which is nice,” McBroom described.

This wasn’t nan friends first clip collaborating professionally. McBroom served arsenic nan nutrient advisor connected Larson’s AppleTV+ show Lessons successful Chemistry. Worked connected group together is what really prompted Party People.

“It came retired of moving together connected Lessons successful Chemistry and really enjoying that process because it's benignant of akin to nan cookbook successful that we had to talk about, ‘Okay, this is nan communicative we're telling successful nan show. This is nan scene. Courtney, what nutrient do you deliberation would activity for that?’” Larson described. “And truthful we were having this backmost and distant and telling a communicative done food, and meanwhile, we propulsion a batch of parties people successful our life, and truthful successful reasoning astir what we could do together, it felt for illustration nan cleanable melds of what some of america are bully at.”