Princess Diana is set to be played by a leading Hollywood actress in a £30million movie based on the years before her divorce from Prince Charles.

Oscar-winning South African actress Charlize Theron, 36, and Carey Mulligan, the 26-year-old English star of An Education, are both being tipped for the lead role.

British film producer Stephen Evans, who has scored success with The Iron Lady about former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, is basing the film on Diana’s bodyguard’s memoirs.

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The Scrubs star will bring his play All New People to the West End after it launched last year in New York. He explained how Drive actress Mulligan gave him tips on how to make the character’s speech and mannerisms more British.

“Actually, when we did an early reading of All New People, Carey Mulligan read the role of Emma for us to hear out loud,” he told Elle.

“She was so cute and she filled me in on one or two things in the play that an English woman would never say. Obviously, I was like, ‘Oh my God, please, I need that.’”

While Mulligan herself will not appear in the play, Braff added that he hopes to work with her in the future.

“She is one of the hottest young stars right now, she doesn’t have time to do a play. But I can’t wait to work with her one day. I am the president of her fan club.”

Lovelace actress Amanda Seyfried has revealed how she has mixed feelings when she auditions for roles, because she obviously wants the role for herself but she is often up against some really nice people. Amanda admitted that she thinks that Harry Potter actress Emma Watson is a very cool person, as is Drive star Carey Mulligan and they are often competing for roles.

Seyfried explained, “The funny thing is, the girls that I’m always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She’s awesome. She’s really funny and smart. And Carey Mulligan. It’s flattering to be up against her because she’s really good, and she’s cool too… I think the era of the diva actress is coming to an end.” Amanda also claimed that she finds it difficult to date non famous guys, as she is unsure of their motives.

Carey Mulligan is building quite the career with interesting role choice and working with some of the best talent in the industry. That trend continues now as Deadline reports the Oscar nominated actress is in discussions to star with Joaquin Phoenix in a secretive film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze. Samantha Morton and Amy Adamsare also circling roles.

Very little is known about the film, but Deadline speculates – based on info gathered late last year – that it is a satire revolving around world leaders who get together to map out worldwide seismic events, from gas prices to wars.

Since bursting onto the scene in “An Education”, which garnered her an Oscar nod for Best Actress, Mulligan has nary missed a step (we’ll forgive her for “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”). In 2011 she turned in two more Oscar worthy performances, as Ryan Gosling’s dream girl in “Drive” and Michael Fassbender’s out of control little sister in “Shame.” She’ll be seen as Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” this December and is currently filming folk music drama “Inside Llewyn Davis” for the Coen Brothers.

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BAFTA nominees announced yesterday and guess what, Carey made it to BAFTA shortlist and got nominated for SUPPORTING ACTRESS award for her role in “Drive”. Also both “Drive” and “Shame” got some more nominations listed bellow:

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
CAREY MULLIGAN Drive
JESSICA CHASTAIN The Help
JUDI DENCH My Week with Marilyn
MELISSA MCCARTHY Bridesmaids
OCTAVIA SPENCER The Help

Other nominations for Carey’s projects are:

• BEST FILM: DRIVE Marc Platt, Adam Siegel
• OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM: SHAME Steve McQueen, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Abi Morgan
• LEADING ACTOR: MICHAEL FASSBENDER Shame
• DIRECTOR: DRIVE Nicolas Winding Refn
• EDITING: DRIVE Mat Newman

posted by guardian.co.uk on january 15th, 2012

In the 1970s, through 1980, the photographer Francesca Woodman made images of young women, most often herself, in a blurry, foggy, subliminal state. She called one famous series her ghost pictures. They were achieved through slow shutter speeds, which meant that instead of being the record of a blinked instant, they captured movement through time and mid-air: in one a female figure leans forward, body flexed, awkward, in fizzing focus, while her head shakes frantically, blurrily, as if ridding herself of a wasp. Many of the figures are almost transparent. I am here, they insist. But watch me disappear.

When Carey Mulligan was working on her latest film, Shame, she saw a documentary about the Woodman family and Francesca’s work inspired her character Sissy – a damaged, needy, tinnily upbeat young woman, whose singing act becomes her last desperate attempt to forge a relationship with her brother. When she is working on a film, says Mulligan, she often makes scrapbooks for her character. “It really is so childish. It’s like my way of saying,” – she puts on a child’s voice – “‘I’m qualified!’ … I had little Woodman pictures in the book, stuff like that.” Her voice goes quiet. “If anyone ever read them I’d be mortified because they’re just full of shit. They’re not clever and there’s nothing creative in them. It’s just me reassuring myself.”

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posted by stv.tv on january 13th, 2012

Carey Mulligan admits she prefers acting on the stage as opposed to in front of cameras.

Carey Mulligan doesn’t like acting in front of a camera.

The British beauty – who has previously been nominated for an Oscar – admits she sometimes struggles in films because she is not fond of cameras, and prefers to be blinded by the lights of theatre.

She said: “The closer a camera gets to me, the worse I am at acting, it completely throws me.

“The best moment of my career to date was doing ‘The Seagull’ on Broadway. It was a couple of years ago, before all that stuff happened with ‘An Education’. Nothing’s topped it, the feeling of being on that stage. It’s so immediate and so consuming in a way that film isn’t.

“Film’s so stop and start and that often makes me act badly. But on stage I’m blinded by the lights.”

However, she was very keen to win the role of eccentric Sissy in Steve McQueen’s sex addiction movie ‘Shame’.

She added to the Metro newspaper: “Steve kept trying to leave the meeting and I sat him back on his chair and said, ‘What do I need to get this job?’ I told him I felt a passionate desire to play the part.”

Seems that all those fashion rumblings were true. The 2012 Metropolitan Costume Exhibit will be Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: On Fashion.

The exhibit will unveil to the public on May 10, and will explore the similarities between two Italian designers from different eras, inspired by Miquel Covarrubias’ ‘Impossible Interviews’ written for Vanity Fair in the 1930s.

The extravangant Met Gala will be held on May 7. And the honorary chair is Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, with Prada fan Carey Mulligan, Miuccia Prada, and Anna Wintour serving as co-chairs. Director Baz Luhrmann will act as creative consultant to the exhibition.

The exhibit is interesting timing considering that Madonna’s film, W.E, about the life, loves and looks of the Duchess of York, Wallis Simpson is hitting theaters.  In the film, costume designer Arianne Phillips, recreated some of Schiaparelli’s dresses worn by The Duchess or York, including the iconic scroll dress, a navy suit with white leather scrolls stitched on the lapel.

The title of the exhibit is based on Umberto Eco‘s books On Beauty and On Ugliness. Videos will play in the galleries of simulated conversations between Schiaparelli and Prada organized by topics such as “On Art,” “On Politics,” “On Women,” “On Creativity,” and more.

Around 80 designs by Schiaparelli — from the late 1920s to the early 1950s — will be displayed, along with Prada designs from the late 1980s to the present. 

Schiaparelli, who worked in Paris from the 1920s until her house closed in 1954, was closely associated with the Surrealist movement that inspired her iconic designs such as the tear dress, the lobster dress, the shoe hat, and the insect necklace.

Prada, who holds a PhD in political science, took over her family’s Milan-based fashoin business in 1978 and focuses on fashions that reflect the eclectic nature of Postmodernism.

Both were thoughtful and creative women of their time and this promises to be a fascinating exhibit. Although it’s doubtful that this exhbit’s attendance will break the records set by Alexander McQueen‘s postumous exhibit last year.

posted by citytv.com on january 11th, 2012

With the Oscar-nominated An Education and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Carey Mulligan has quickly become one of the most talked-about young British actresses.

In Shame the 26-year-old plays alongside Michael Fassbender whose performance of a New York-based sex addict has already won him numerous awards and a Golden Globe nomination.

It is his second collaboration after 2008′s Hunger with director Steve McQueen. Many now tip the Irish actor to be in the running for an Academy Award in 2012. Mulligan, who found herself at the centre of Oscar-buzz two years, believes her co-star fully deserves to be recognized.

“I think if there’s any justice then he ought to be. It’s so fully deserved and sometimes it doesn’t work like that though you know. I hope and I think you know it would be criminal if he wasn’t but you know at the end of the day the performance is there and people will see it and the people who matter will see it and that’s the best he can ask for.”

Fassbender made the leap to Hollywood when Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks hired him for their Band of Brothers World War Two television mini-series. He also appeared in such hits as X-Men: First Class, 300 and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
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