Carey Mulligan doesn’t believe actors who say they don’t care about awards
British actor Carey Mulligan has claimed actors who say they don’t care about those accolades are “100 per cent” pretending.
Last year, Mulligan starred in Emerald Fennell’s debate-sparking picture Saltburn as poor dear Pamela, but it’s her role in Maestro that has dominated award season. Starring opposite director and lead actor Bradley Cooper, who played Leonard Bernstein, Mulligan took on the role of Costa Rican actress Felicia Montealegre.
The film has received ten nods from the Oscars at this year’s awards, with Cooper and Mulligan both picking up nominations in their respective lead acting categories. The pair have also secured nominations at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Baftas.
Mulligan recently spoke about the excitement of award season during a conversation with The Times, admitting that being nominated is “just the coolest thing. Because it’s from your peers. It’s wicked.”
The actor went on to suggest that many actors pretend not to care about statues and accolades but that they’re almost definitely lying. “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 per cent lying,” she declared.
Mulligan is up against fierce competition in the ‘Best Actress’ category this year, including Emma Stone’s otherworldly appearance in Poor Things and Lily Gladstone’s considered performance in Killers of the Flower Moon.
In a two-and-a-half star review of Maestro, Far Out wrote of Maestro, “It’s hard to understand what Maestro’s intention is, though. To show Bernstein’s brilliance or portray him as a bit of an egotistical asshole that largely neglected his family despite that brilliance? Whatever Cooper’s intention, he seems to have been able to give a surprising insight into the life of one of the most celebrated figures in the music world.”
Watch the trailer for Maestro below.
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