Carey Mulligan.Photo:Araya Doheny/Getty Images
Araya Doheny/Getty Images
Carey Mulliganhas a hard time believing actors who claim that awards don’t matter.
In a new interview published on Saturday with British daily newspaperThe Times, the Westminster, London-born talent, 38, gave her honest opinion about those in her line of work who downplay prestigious accolades.
Reflecting on her recent Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Felicia Montealegre inMaestro, Mulligan praised the opportunity to be recognized.
Carey Mulligan, February 2010.Dave Hogan/Getty
Dave Hogan/Getty
She said that being nominated “is just the coolest thing. Because it’s from your peers. It’s wicked. And the thousands (literally) of actors that I’ve met who say that awards don’t matter and that it’s the work that counts? They are 100 percent lying.”
InMaestro, the actress stars alongsideBradley Cooper, who portrays Leonard Bernstein in the Netflix biopic. The film tells the story of the American conductor’s relationship with the Costa Rica-born actress.
Interestingly enough, Mulligan has not auditioned for a role since 2014, she toldThe Times.
She landed the part of Montealegre after she and Cooper, 49, had a chance meeting that ended with him rushing her to the hospital. Mulligan was performing a solo Broadway show of Dennis Kelly’sGirls & Boyswhen a stage curtain fell on her head.
Last month, theSilver Linings Playbookactor recalled the incident onThe Graham Norton Show.
“Carey was in a one-woman show, and I went backstage to meet her and realized something was not right and I insisted ontaking her to the emergency room," Cooper said.
Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan, January 2024.Christopher Polk/WWD via Getty Images
Christopher Polk/WWD via Getty Images
“During the show, a bit of set hit me on the head," Mulligan explained. “I carried on but when it was over, I started crying and thought I was a goner.”
“I was sobbing on the floor when Bradley turned up and, realizing I wasn’t OK, he took me to hospital. You can imagine how delighted the nurse was!”
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Elsewhere in her interview withThe Times, she said she was “gutted” forGreta Gerwigwhen theBarbiefilmmaker didn’t receive a best director Oscar nomination for the project.
“I don’t know what else you can do as a director to get nominated,” she said. “You make a critically acclaimed film that’s also an incredible global success, and yet you don’t get nominated?”
TheSaltburnactress knows a thing or two about being snubbed.
In February 2023,Mulligan was incorrectly announced as the winnerat the 2023BAFTA Awardsfor the best supporting actress award for her performance in the #MeToo dramaShe Said.
Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) and Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) — ‘She Said’.Universal Pictures
Everyone else in the Royal Festival Hall was “just kind of slow clapping as if to say, ‘This feels very wrong,’” Mulligan told the British newspaper.
She added that one of her closest friends,50 Shades of GreyactorJamie Dornan, who was seated just two rows in front of her, laughed hysterically at the slip-up.
source: people.com
