Carey Mulligan Says Actors Who Claim They Don’t Care About Awards Are ‘100 Percent Lying’

Carey Mulligan has a hard time believing actors who claim that awards are not important.

In a new interview published on Saturday by a British daily newspaper TimeThe Westminster, London-born talent, 38, gave her honest opinion on those in her line of work who detract from the prestigious accolades.

Reflecting on her recent Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Felicia Montealegra in MaestroMulligan praised the opportunity to be recognized.

Carey Mulligan, February 2010.

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She said the nomination was “the best thing. Because he is one of your peers. That’s wicked. And the thousands (literally) of actors I’ve met who say awards don’t matter and work is what counts? They lie 100 percent.”

IN Maestro, the actress stars opposite Bradley Cooper, who portrays Leonard Bernstein in the Netflix biopic. The film is about the relationship between an American conductor and an actress born in Costa Rica.

Interestingly, Mulligan hasn’t auditioned for the role since 2014, she told Time.

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She landed the role of Montealegre after she and Cooper, 49, had a chance meeting that ended with him rushing her to hospital. Mulligan performed a one-man Broadway play by Dennis Kelly Girls & Boys when the stage curtain fell on her head.

Last month, Silver Linings Playbook the actor recalled the incident on The Graham Norton Show.

“Carey was in a one-woman show, I went backstage to meet her and realized something was wrong and insisted on taking her to the ER,” Cooper said.

Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan, January 2024.

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“During the show, a bit of the set hit me over the head,” Mulligan explained. “I kept going but when it was over I started crying and I thought I was gone.”

“I was sobbing on the floor when Bradley turned up and, realizing I wasn’t well, took me to the hospital. You can imagine how delighted the nurse was!”

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Elsewhere in her interview with Timeshe said she was “outraged” by Greta Gerwig when she Barbie the director did not receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Director for this project.

“I don’t know what else you can do as a director to get nominated,” she said. “You make a movie that’s been critically acclaimed and also an incredible worldwide success, and yet you’re not nominated?”

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The Saltburn the actress knows a thing or two about being snubbed.

In February 2023, Mulligan was incorrectly announced as the winner of the 2023 BAFTA Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama #MeToo She said.

Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) and Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) — ‘She Said’. Universal Pictures

He was the real winner Banshee of Inisherin star Kerry Condon. However, deaf actor and presenter Troy Kotsur signed the word “Kerry”, which the translator announced as “Carey”, causing confusion.

Everyone else in the Royal Festival Hall “just clapped slowly as if to say, ‘This feels very wrong,'” Mulligan told the British newspaper.

She added that one of her closest friends, 50 shades of gray actor Jamie Dornan, who was sitting just two rows in front of her, laughed hysterically at the slip.

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