Transformer
Carey Mulligan‘s sleek frosty-blonde look, seen at Monday night’s Hollywood Awards, is basically a Baz Luhrman creation as she’s currently playing Daisy Buchanan in Baz’s 3D version of The Great Gatsby. But she’s been looking fairly glammy for a while now, and I was struck this morning by the contrast between these two photos. The left-side shot was snapped by yours truly at Park City’s Egyptian Theatre in January 2009 just after the first screening of An Education; the other was taken the night before last.
Share your impressions by all means, but it seems as if the slightly overwhelmed, vaguely anxious 23 year-old I spoke to in Park City some 32 months ago is…well, we all grow up and become wise to the world, don’t we? It’s just that that this inevitable process has happened very quickly to Mulligan. I’m supposed to do a phoner with her tomorrow or the day after about her crazy-sister role in Shame and other current matters.
It seems more like a tired girl who’s doing a low key screening vs a girl who realizes a multitude of cameras are on her. She probably took a nap as well before the awards show, where she seems a bit drowsy and possibly hungry at the screening.
I don’t like short hair on women, but she is pretty. No doubt about it.
Maybe she got tired of looking like a man.
Nose job.
She looks beautiful as a blonde.
Look. At. Her.
She should definitely play Princess Grace in the project that has been making the rounds.
One thing that’s always amused/confounded me is how an accent makes someone more attractive. If Carey were American, she’d be a 6, maybe a 7. But because of that adorable accent of hers, I’d rank her a solid 8.
And despite the obvious aesthetic discrepancies in the two photos, I prefer her as a brunette.
I never found her particularly attractive, compared to most movie stars anyway, until DRIVE. You just totally fall in love with her.
IMO she’s one of the most naturally beautiful actresses working in movies today. I love her face and her hair.
Her looks have never been the problem, but the “adorable accent” also seems to convince people that she can act. Or that the films she’s in are good. This despite the fact that her body of work includes An Education, Never Let Me Go and Drive – the former two being genuine trainwrecks and the latter being the most disappointing film of 2011 thus far.
She’s kryptonite and I’m genuinely worried about Shame because of her involvement.
I once saw her across a restaurant before “An Education” hit and I had no idea who she was. She was striking in person – an honest to goodness beauty. She was waiting to meet someone and that someone turned out to be Warren Beatty. Then they sat next to my table and I was able to eavesdrop on the conversation. Believe me, it was “an education”.
This is one of the most critical sites I’ve seen in a while. Now Carry Mulligan is being picked apart over a couple of pictures. An Education, and Never Let Me Go trainwrecks? That’s a bit OTT, Gabriel. The one thing that Mulligan has is a combination of innocence and knowing in her glances. She holds the screen. Sure, she still needs work, but I think she’s a find. And much better than a lot of young actresses out there today.
Some real charmers in this thread.
Obviously beautiful, obviously awesome, totally classy and has been in NOTHING but good movies… One of my favorites being WALL STREET 2, which as an HBO while-the-day away view NEVER gets old, a quality it shares with its predecessor, which it’s now fit to join as Rewatch Heaven…. Watch for this DELIGHTFUL part where LaBeouf is all worked up about something, all intense and douchey and does some dorky superhero noise… Mulligan’s reaction is the most dorkily charming thing ever… and that’s probably her least awesome performance so far.
Angry, angry, men on this thread. Take a gander at the fat hog you married and then tell me Mulligan isn’t pretty.
She’s beautiful (though not really my type) talented, and has been great in some terrific movies.
Also should add that while I generally subscribe to Tom Leykis’s rule that women should NEEEEEVER have short hair, the obvious exceptions are Mulligan, Emma Watson, and Mia Wasikowska.
FETCHING.
I generally find her more “cute” than “sexy” — I’m not sure I’ve seen a flick in which she plays an actual WOMAN yet. I didn’t really buy the attraction between her character and Gosling’s in Drive, either — you pair off two extreme introverts like that and more often than not it’s a relationship DISASTER. Paula Abdul sang the truth in Opposites Attract.
Having said that, when she’s well-cast in a movie that plays to her strengths, she’s great. I would absolutely classify her roles in An Education and Never Let Me Go (about the furthest thing in the world from a “trainwreck,” btw) as “fine performances.”
WS2 is pretty terrible, though.
Except for the MaSheen cameo.
How long before the inevitable Rosemary’s Baby remake rumors start?
She is beautiful. And talented.
Some of you guys are fucking stupid.
Gabriel,
What the fuck is wrong with YOU? Some things are simply not subjective, and An Education and Mulligan’s performance in it are non-negotiable, and indisputably fine in every way. Ditto her performance in Never Let Me Go, a cruelly disposed of movie with deeper themes than most movies that grabbed at greatness, even if it missed by a bit. If you think those are bad movies you are out of your fucking head. And her work in Drive was sublime. Her ability to project pure and down-to-earth, unfettered or “acted” vulnerability is hers and hers alone amongst young actresses.
START PAYING ATTENTION.
Oh and her work in The Greatest was, as always, deep and affecting.
She’s prettier than I used to think, now that she’s dumped the old helmet-head haircut for something more elegant, but not a raving beauty in the Lively/Heard/Seyfried/PInto. mold.
She’s pretty good in a pretty bad overrated film in An Education. She’s excellent in Never Let Me Go, which is a very good film.
She’s not a star at this time, although cheerleading movie blogs like her to treat her that way. Because movie blogs are divorced from reality. In that sense Gosling and Mulligan are a perfect pairing in Drive of movie blog heroes who aren’t really stars.
“Some things are simply not subjective, and An Education and Mulligan’s performance in it are non-negotiable, and indisputably fine in every way.”
An Education is a movie that chickens out at every turn. It takes its time and energy to build this dilemma about whether or not getting an education is really worth it, particularly when you (appear to) have a punched ticket to the high life.
How does the movie answer this question? By turning Peter Sarsgaard into a villain and erasing one of the choices. And it’s why when Mulligan visits the teacher’s apartment late in the movie and comes to a “it’s not so bad” conclusion that it rings hollow. Because we all know that it is pretty shabby in comparison to the life she might have had. And we all know that if the guy had turned out to be a nice, honest businessman that it would have been the right choice.
Why is her blond hair “Basically a Baz Lurmann creation”? Wasn’t she also blond in both “Drive” & “Shame”. I also happen to think she’s both pretty and talented – but each to his own… I do think it’s startling how quickly she’s gone from being “unknown” to a “star” (and yes the speech marks are intentional) in the space of what , 4 or 5 films?
K. Bowen, you are way off course. The film is not about “whether or not getting an education is really worth it,” but instead about a wide-eyed young girl’s coming of age and disillusionment with her world (including her father), and subsequent creation of her own identity. And THAT is was is so beautifully etched in Mulligan’s performance. The film and cast are peerless — Molina, Thompson, Williams, Cooper, Pike — right down the line.
And of course Sarsgaard’s character is a charlatan and sham — what of it? Any mature and sophisticated woman would see it, which is why it works on Jenny. It’s a necessary and very true axiom that first love = heartbreak, not riding off into the sunset with an older, materialistic louse.
94% — Rotten Tomatoes
85% — Metacritic.
You, sir, are dead wrong. Period.
bobbyperu is absolutely correct in his interpretation of the film An Education…and K. Bowen, I mean, wow, you missed the point of the film, badly…you can still dislike the film, etc., but you completely missed the message, and that was the crux of your criticism.
She’s so cute and adorable. She would make one hell of a psychopathic killer.
I love that the basis of this post boils down to: check out how awful this chick looked back then, and check out how hot she is now.
And I concur with tate– lookswise, Amber Heard is in a whole other class above Ms. Mulligan.
Pretty interesting that Jeff took down my comment on Mulligan along with the one that preceded mine calling her mediocre.
I’ll try again – she’s okay, not great, but I thought she was woefully miscast in Drive.
Then I added I wasn’t into pixie chicks.
Is all of that so bad as to justify being removed, Jeff? What are you, her press agent?
“…back in ’04 when I first met her…”
Who are all you guys that you’re always MEETING celebrities or doing PHONERS? Unless you are a CO-STAR IN ONE OF THEIR MOVIES, you have no business talking to a famous person, ever.
My posts were removed as well. I feel all miffed now! As were the (completely innocuous!) posts I made on the Murphy and War Horse threads.
And my comments were complementary of her! I have large problems with An Education,as per my second post, and those problems continue in the vein those described by K. Bowen, but I also wrote that it succeeded because of her charisma.
And in my first post I wrote about her makeover (approving both indie/student/brunette Carey and chic/post-rhinoplasty/glam Carey as cute), recalled my favourite performance (Northanger Abbey) and mused on her range beyong playing winsome characters the audience gazes on as idealised and loveable.
Then I wrote she had more charm than Rachel McAdams. Is that why I’ve been booted?
Sorry.
“It takes its time and energy to build this dilemma about whether or not getting an education is really worth it, particularly when you (appear to) have a punched ticket to the high life. ”
This is a shocking misread on the entire movie. Now, sure, some people pointed it out, but they didn’t go far enough — if you think that the choice Mulligan is presented by going to school is actually an education, then you missed a pretty major theme of the movie. To put it briefly, there is no dilemma being offered by the movie; the “education” that she is going for is what was offered to women in that era in England — she’s going to school to learn how to get hooked up with a guy who can provide for her, which is why she considers eliminating the middleman (school) and jumping right to the guy who can provide for her.
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