“Education”, Carey Mulligan, 2009.
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Fifteen years ago, Carey Mulligan first visited the Berlin Film Festival to cheer on a drama star in the making. education. The film, directed by Lorne Scherfig, tells the story of Jenny (Mulligan), a teenager living in suburban London in the 1960s who falls in love with a smooth-talking older man played by Peter Sarsgaard.
Shellfig (Italian for beginners) shared an agent with writer Nick Hornby, who wrote the screenplay based on an autobiographical essay by journalist Lynn Barber.
The film starred Emma Thompson, Alfred Molina, and Rosamund Pike in supporting roles, but it had a rough road and lost funding before production. Mulligan said. THR Eighteen months passed between her first audition and the green light for the project, during which time she ended up working in a pub.
when education It premiered at Sundance in January 2009, THR praised the film as a “smart, moving, but not inaccessible entry into the canon of youth.” Sony Pictures Classics released the title in October of the same year, and it went on to become an awards darling, earning three Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and Mulligan winning a BAFTA.
The actress returns to Berlin this year in the Netflix sci-fi drama alienin which he played opposite Adam Sandler. education Producer Finola Dwyer says: THR Mulligan, who is currently an Oscar nominee, is still surprised by her acting choices. maestro“We already knew that, but she was the real deal.”
