Carey Mulligan and Adam Sandler.Photo:Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu via Getty
Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu via Getty
Carey Mulliganis a trueAdam Sandlerbuff.
“I am such an enormous fan,” theMaestroactress, who costars with theSaturday Night Livealum in the upcoming dramaSpaceman, said in an interview with Netflix. “In fact, before we shot, I watched all of his movies.”
That’s an incredible feat, considering Sandler has made more than four dozen films, including comedies likeHappy GilmoreandThe Wedding Singerand more dramatic fare likePunch-Drunk Love.
But Mulligan’s admiration of Sandler was from afar: Prior to makingSpaceman, their paths hadn’t crossed.
Carey Mulligan and Adam Sandler in ‘Spaceman’.Courtesy of Netflix
Courtesy of Netflix
“I’d never met him. I didn’t meet him until I got to Prague to shoot the film,” she continued. “Everyone said he was the best, but he really was. I loved every day I got to spend with him as well as every day I got to act with him.”
In the film, Sandler plays Jakub Prochazka, an astronaut on a solo mission to Jupiter. He longs for his pregnant wife Lenka (Mulligan), who’s back on Earth millions of miles away. Disillusioned that her husband keeps choosing lengthy missions over life at home, Lenka decides to leave him.
Adam Sandler in ‘Happy Gilmore’.Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock
Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock
“There’s that cliche of the wife who stays at home and is miserable and complains about her husband going off to do something huge, and I felt like this role was such an interesting take on that because she has real agency,” continued Mulligan.
“She makes a decision that she’s going to leave and do this alone. I thought there was real power in her deciding that she’s not going to just wallow in the fact that he’s not there,” she said.
“She’s not isolating herself really. She’s just isolating herself from him, and it’s what she needs in that moment to survive it,” said Mulligan.
Adam Sandler in ‘Big Daddy’.Myles Aronowitz/Columbia/Kobal/Shutterstock
Myles Aronowitz/Columbia/Kobal/Shutterstock
Hanus even helps the “skinny human” (as he calls Jakub) do some soul-searching about what really matters.
“There was something really beautiful about this idea of having to explain your humanity to a creature that isn’t human. We are all very different people on this earth and we misunderstand each other a lot, but in the end, we have core experiences and emotions,” Jaroslav Kalfar, who wrote the book on whichSpacemanis based, told Netflix.
Spaceman, which costarsKunal Nayyar, Lena Olin and Isabella Rosselini, streams on Netflix Friday, March 1.
source: people.com
