Carey Mulligan; Marcus Mumford in 2023.Photo:Taylor Hill/FilmMagic; Frazer Harrison/Getty
Taylor Hill/FilmMagic; Frazer Harrison/Getty
Carey Mulliganis remembering her first impressions of husbandMarcus Mumford— when they were just kids!
In anepisodeofJason Bateman,Sean HayesandWill Arnett’sSmartLesspodcast published Monday, theMaestrostar, 38, revealed she first met Mumford, 36, at a camp.
“I wrote in my diary that he was the nicest, the kindest person I’d ever met and I gave him 9 1/2 out of 10," the British actress said of getting to know Mumford.
Ironically, she added, “I also wrote in my diary that he definitely wasn’t boyfriend material. Not that I’d ever had a boyfriend at that time! But I decided that he was not it.”
In 2015, Mulligan revealed toVoguethat it was at a Christian youth camp that she’d met the Mumford and Sons frontman, when she was 12 and he was 10. Bateman, Hayes and Arnett expressed surprise upon learning the future husband-and-wife duo became pen pals after that experience.
In response to Hayes asking if a “hook up” was part of that camp memory, Mulligan said, “We didn’t.”
Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford at the 2021 Academy Awards.ABC via Getty
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Mulligan reconnected with the musician in 2011 when they both worked together on the 2013 filmInside Llewyn Davis. “If we had not met as adults in Nashville, which is how we did end up meeting, we would have met on that job because we both got hired independent of each other,” she said. They tied the knot on a farm in Somerset, England, in 2012. In attendance at the intimate ceremony wereSienna Miller,Jake GyllenhaalandColin Firth.
When asked what score out of 10 Mulligan would give her husband now after that 9 1/2, theAn EducationOscar nominee joked to theSmartLesshosts, “He’s a solid 6.”
Their interview also covered Mulligan’s acting techniques and how they applied to her performance as Felicia Montealegre Bernstein, wife ofLeonard Bernstein, inMaestro(now streaming on Netflix), which was recently nominated for aGolden GlobeandCritics Choice Award. Arnett called it “one of the great performances I’ve seen in the last 20 years.”
Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan in 2023.Dave Benett/WireImage
Dave Benett/WireImage
“I don’t think I’ve had a part like this,” she said. When director-starBradley Cooperoffered her the part of Felicia, she added, “I was shocked. Because, first of all, I thought, ‘Oh, you think I can act! That’s so nice!’
“But secondly… he had just doneA Star Is Born, it was just wild to think, ‘Gosh, you’re trusting me with this.’ He said, ‘If you’re going to do this, you have to go all in.’”
Mulligan will next star inSpaceman, a sci-fi drama starringAdam Sandler, on Netflix March 1.
source: people.com
