Carey Mulliganhopes her buzzed-about new filmPromising Young Womanwill move audiences to laugh, cry and cringe.
“It’s not about a sort of goodie and baddie situation,” the British actress, 35, tells PEOPLE in the latest issue. “I like the fact that the film makes us kind of reexamine, ‘How have weallbeen complicit in this?’ There’s so much to unpack about the way people talk about consent.”
Carey Mulligan inPromising Young Woman.Courtesy of Focus Features
Mulligan admits to being scared of the role initially — and says her reaction was a sign she had to take it on.
“I like to play parts where on the page, I can’t quite figure them out,” she says. “There are elements of it that are very serious and need to be handled delicately, but for the rest of it, it’s a comedy.”
And one that boasts apop-heavy soundtrackfull of memorable, mostly-female-performed, catchy songs (i.e. Britney Spears' “Toxic,” and Paris Hilton’s 2006 hit “Stars Are Blind”)
“I really enjoy being in a film where people are very excited about Britney Spears being on the soundtrack,” says the actress.
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Promising Young Womanalso features a supporting cast of very familiar faces including: Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Alison Brie, Connie Britton, Max Greenfield, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Adam Brody, most of whom are playing opposite the types of characters they’re known for.
“Everyday was different,” says Mulligan of the very quick 23-day shoot. “There was a different, amazing actor coming in every day. And [filming] was going from full romantic comedy to revenge movie to thriller. The whole thing was quite exhilarating.”
Marcus Mumford and Carey Mulligan posed together in April for a Comic Relief fundraiser.Marcus Mumford and Carey Mulligan - Comic Relief via Getty
In addition to her hope that audiences will find the film both entertaining and thought-provoking, Mulligan looks forward to when her two children, daughter Evelyn Grace, 5 and son Wilfred, 3, with her musician husband Marcus Mumford, 33, are old enough to see it.
“I want them to see this film or something like it,” she says. “Ideally they won’t grow up with the same kind of influences that we did that normalizes this kind of behavior. I think the world has moved on, to a degree, or is in the process of moving on.”
Promising Young Womanis now playing in theaters.
source: people.com
