She always looks stunning when she attends any showbiz event.And things were no different for Carey Mulligan as she turned heads in an eye-catching bejewelled gown at the Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California on Saturday.The actress looked enchanting in a gold and white midi dress adorned with brightly coloured gems and shiny gold sequins
Those who will marvel, as I did, at Carey Mulligan’s raw, disturbing performance in the upcoming movie Wildlife might spare a small vote of thanks to a certain Mrs. Jacobsen. Mulligan does. She recently brought her own young children along to pay a call on “Mrs. J.,” who ran the local church choir when Mulligan was a timid 7-year-old girl.
“She was the first person to get me to sing a solo on my own. It was my first step into that whole performing world,” Mulligan, 33, recalls. “She used to stand behind me. I’d start singing very quietly, and then she’d just push gently into my back, and I’d sing louder.”
Mulligan says she has no master plan in mind when she takes on a new role, except perhaps to wrong-foot everyone’s expectations, including her own. “You do something well and people want you to just repeat that thing over and over,” she says. “After An Education, I got a lot of offers to play quirky girls going through big life changes, and I didn’t want to do that. It’s really just not wanting to take on things I could competently do without much work. It doesn’t seem worth it.”
