In the action drama Drive, actress Carey Mulligan plays Irene, the mother of a young son whose father (Oscar Isaacs) is in prison. One day, Driver (Ryan Gosling) meets Irene in an elevator ride at his apartment and he becomes transfixed. When trouble starts, Driver finds himself embroiled even further in Irene’s life.

Following the FilmDistrict Studio panel in Hall H at Comic-Con, Carey Mulligan sat down for a roundtable and talked about how Nicolas Refn was on her fantasy wish list of directors that she wanted to work with, the challenge of making a film where the dialogue has been stripped away, how she wishes she had more stunt work to do, and that she would love to play a butt-kicking heroine in an action movie, but preferably without a spandex costume. Check out what she had to say after the jump:

Question: It seems like you’ve been working a lot lately.

CAREY MULLIGAN: Does it? That’s awful.

Is it true that you hadn’t worked in awhile before you made Drive?

MULLIGAN: I didn’t work for a year after Wall Street. I finished that in November, and then it was the following October that I did Drive, so I took a year off. I didn’t do anything at all, really. I just hung around.

Was it director Nicolas Refn that really interested you in the project?

MULLIGAN: I did Wall Street, and then everything that happened with An Education took me up until March. I didn’t want to work during that because there was just so much stuff. I didn’t realize you had to go to so many parties. It was a nightmare! I had to go to all these parties! The glamour! No. Then, everything I was reading after that and things that were around just seemed to be a little bit too similar to stuff that I’d done. There were some teenagers that felt a little bit like An Education and some similar roles to Never Let Me Go, and lots of TV things that I’d done earlier on, so I just didn’t find anything. Continue Reading »

One of the hottest upcoming films in Hollywood is Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of “The Great Gatsby”, so it’s no surprise that leading lady Carey Mulligan was a bit nervous about landing the role.

MTV News caught up with the “Never Let Me Go” star when she was at San Diego Comic-Con promoting her latest flick, “Drive”,that costars Ryan Gosling and Bryan Cranston. According to her, waiting to hear back about the audition was quite a stressful experience for her.

We got a first official look of Carey in her upcoming film “Shame”!  She looks absolutely gorgeous! Check stills and poster in the gallery. Also here is the official synopsis:

Brandon is a thirty-something man living in New York who is unable to manage his sex life. After his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment, Brandon‟s world spirals out of control. From director Steve McQueen (Hunger), Shame is a compelling and timely examination of the nature of need, how we live our lives and the experiences that shape us. Stars Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale and Nicole Beharie.

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Carey Mulliganwon’t take responsibility for her fashion sense.

The An Education star says she can’t believe she would ever be picked out for her style sense because she has a helping hand from a professional when it comes to picking out clothes.

“Fashion is not something that comes naturally to me. It is not me, it is someone else who tells me what to wear, so I don’t have any fashion sense,” admits the 26-year-old Brit actress.

“If it was up to me I would just wear a jumper every day. But I have a stylist so everything that I wear on the red carpet, to an event or an award show was put on me and I just look down at it and go ‘Really? This? Okay then.’ I don’t really know anything about fashion. It is a big misconception.”

Carey recently admitted she thinks the free clothes she gets can be wasteful.

“If someone sends me a bag and it’s really expensive, I think, ‘You should give these things away, you should make some money’,” she said.

“I just gave most of my shoes to my brother’s girlfriend, she went crazy.

“I tend to hang on to really nice things, but what can you do with a dress you wore to the Oscars? It sits there. It’s a bit of a shame really.”

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I updated a couple of recent albums in the gallery with mostly HQ photos of Carey:

• [x009] Appearances in 2011 – July 21st: Comic-Con 2011 – Film District Party
  
• [x004] Appearances in 2011 – July 21st: Comic-Con 2011 – Film District Studio Panel
  
• [x006] Appearances in 2011 – June 13th: Junior Spring Benefit for the Lincoln Center Institute
  
• [x046] Appearances in 2011 – June 6th: “Through A Glass Darkly” Opening Night – After Party
  
• [x009] Theatrical Plays: Through A Glass Darkly -  June 6th: Opening Night

I updated the gallery with many more photos of Carey at Comic-Con a couple of days ago. I mostly added photos from the studio panel but also some captures of an interview and an outtake of portrait session:

• [x019] Appearances in 2011 - July 21st: Comic-Con 2011 – Film District Studio Panel
• [x096] Captures in 2011 - July 21st: Comic-Con 2011 – Day 1
• [x001] Portrait Sessions in 2011 -  July 21st: Comic-Con 2011 Portraits

Finally we have a “Drive” trailer with lots of Carey in it!!! Check out the captures in the gallery and the trailer below:

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Carey Mulligan says she has done intensive research ahead of filming The Great Gatsby in Australia next month.

The Oscar-nominated actress will play socialite Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann’s version of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel.

Mulligan, who has just finished in a stage play in New York, told the BBC: “It’s daunting. It’s the biggest thing I’ve been involved in – it’s strange going from a little off-Broadway play to such a big thing, but I’m raring to go.”

Filming begins at Fox Studios in Sydney in August. Luhrmann’s last two films, Australia and Moulin Rouge, were also shot there.

According to industry paper The Hollywood Reporter, it will be the first live-action 3D movie to be shot in New South Wales. The story itself is set in New York.

Mulligan stars opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays the mysterious Jay Gatsby and Tobey Maguire as narrator Nick Carraway.

The most famous film version of The Great Gatsby is Jack Clayton’s 1974 movie, which starred Robert Redford as Gatsby, Mia Farrow as Buchanan and Sam Waterston as Carraway.

Mulligan said that the whole Gatsby cast had got together in New York earlier this year to workshop the characters.

“It’s really research intensive. We got overloaded with books and research files. I’ve been reading Zelda Fitzgerald [wife of F Scott] biographies about [Chicago socialite] Ginevra King and all these characters that Daisy was drawn from.”

Luhrmann has taken the step of publishing the research material on his film production company website.

In September, Mulligan will be seen alongside Ryan Gosling in Drive, a violent Los Angeles-set crime thriller directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.

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As expected Carey was at Comic-Con yesterday at both Studio Panel and Party. Here are some photos of her wearing a fantastic dress and looking really fabulous:

• [x035] Appearances in 2011 - July 21st: Comic-Con 2011 – Film District Studio Panel
• [x014] Appearances in 2011 - July 21st: Comic-Con 2011 – Film District Party

Ralph Fiennes is set to direct and star in The Invisible Woman.

The Harry Potter actor has met with a number of actresses to discuss the titular role in the movie, which tells the story of Charles Dickens’ secret 13-year romance with Ellen Ternan, who was known as Nelly by Charles.

Ralph has been linked with the role of Dickens in the film, which is based on a book written by Claire Tomalin, while An Education actress Carey Mulligan is thought to be among those he is considering to play the main female character.

He has also reportedly met with Imogen Poots, Abbie Cornish and Felicity Jones to discuss the part of Nelly.

The 48-year-old director is also set to be involved in another Dickens production when he takes on the role of Magwitch in Mike Newell’s big-screen adaptation of Great Expectations, which is set to be produced by Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley in late autumn.

Ralph currently stars as Lord Voldermort in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 – the last film in the movie series – which earned R1.2-billion in its opening weekend in North America.

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