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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 24 OctOber 2018
Carey Mulligan on her 'women's liberation trilogy'

By JAKE COYLE dren with singer-songwriter
TORONTO (AP) — Carey Marcus Mumford. "To think
Mulligan is a letter writer. about the notion of at one
As a young woman with point letting them down in
acting aspirations, she the future in some profound
wrote to Kenneth Branagh way, it's just so frightening."
asking for advice after see- On the festival circuit, both
ing him in "Henry V." At 16, in Cannes and at the recent
she wrote to "Mr. Eminem" New York Film Festival, Mul-
to tell the rapper what a ligan has found herself de-
fan she was of "8 Mile." Af- fending Jeanette, whose
ter Julian Fellowes visited wheels may be coming off,
her school, she wrote to the but she's doing her best in
screenwriter, too, forging constricted circumstances.
a connection that led to "Someone in Cannes was
meeting casting directors like, 'Gosh, she's such a
and ultimately landing a terrible mother.' I was like,
part in the 2005 film "Pride & 'Hang on a minute,'" Mulli-
Prejudice." gan says.
"I didn't have any way into Early on, Kazan — who for
the industry. I didn't know years exchanged drafts
what my route in was," with Dano — realized she
says Mulligan. "Sometimes, wanted to "advocate" for
I feel compelled to write to This Sept. 9, 2018 photo shows actress Carey Mulligan, a cast member in the film "Wildlife," posing Jeanette.
someone to tell them how for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. "I started to feel very
brilliant they are. I wrote to Associated Press aligned with Jeanette. She
Amy Adams after 'Arrival' feels to me like a there-but-
and I was like: 'You are the about women's rights to- line. It's like a women's lib- The appeal, though, of for-the-grace-go-I char-
best actress on the planet.'" day — Mulligan has played eration trilogy." "Wildlife" was two-fold. It acter. To be a woman in
That Mulligan found her a kind of modern woman The roles have collectively was a chance to work with that particular time period,
way by seizing it with some- sought for marriage by a been an education for longtime friends. Mulligan having to live up to the ar-
thing as old-fashioned as battery of suitors in 1874 Mulligan, each with plenty has for years known Dano, chetypal constraints of wife
pen and paper is appro- England ("Far From the of relevance to today's Gyllenhaal and Zoe Kazan, and mother that are so
priate. Since her debut in Madding Crowd"), a culti- battles for gender equal- who wrote the script with narrowly defined," Kazan
"Pride & Prejudice," her ca- vated woman dragged to ity, within and without the Dano, her partner. (Kazan said by phone. "There was
reer has frequently been post-WWII Mississippi by her movie industry. But Mulligan and Mulligan co-starred in something about that that
one of time travel. In a long husband ("Mudbound"), is also — and she stresses the 2008 Broadway staging felt very poignant to me,
string of period films, from and, in Paul Dano's Richard this — ready for something of "The Seagull.") And it was very important."
her breakthrough in the Ford adaptation "Wildlife," more modern day. also a kind of part that Mul- That Mulligan was right for
1961 London-set "An Edu- a trapped, aimless woman "I'm absolutely dying to do ligan has seldom had the a messier character, Ka-
cation" to her latest, "Wild- whose husband (Jake Gyl- a contemporary film. I can't opportunity to play. When zan says, was clear from
life," set in 1960s Montana, lenhaal) leaves her and even begin to tell you how her husband strands them, performances in Steve Mc-
she has vividly brought their 14-year-old boy (Ed much. Every time I get a confusion and regret con- Queen's "Shame" and her
to life portraits of women Oxenbould) in a remote great script, it just happens sumes Jeanette Brinson, stage work. Echoing wide-
through history, women Montana town while he to be a period film. There and she lurches desper- spread praise for Mulligan's
whose own paths were too goes off to fight forest fires. is something wonderful ately in search of stability — performance in "Wildfire,"
constrained to be freed by "They're all kind of weirdly about getting to visit differ- all while her son anxiously The New Yorker wrote:
sheer force of will and a linked and not by any de- ent eras. But I'd also com- watches. "Mulligan casts aside her
stamp. sign," Mulligan said in an pletely love to do some- "The thing that really scared natural sweetness to bring
Since 2015's "Suffragette" interview last month over thing contemporary. But it me about it was the idea of us a soured soul, driven
— a movie she says re- tea on a rainy morning. "But just doesn't happen," says failing your children," says only by the courage of her
invigorated her feelings there is a kind of through- Mulligan. Mulligan, who has two chil- confusion."q

'Black Panther' costume designer

to receive career award

Associated Press Academy Award nominee nominations. She is cur-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ruth will receive the honor at rently working on the Para-
E. Carter, the creator of the 21st annual ceremony mount Network show "Yel-
the stunning costumes of held Feb. 19 in Beverly Hills. lowstone." The awards cer-
"Black Panther" and nu- Carter's costumes for the emony will also include a
merous other Hollywood blockbuster "Black Panther" new category for costume
films, will receive the ca- earned widespread praise designs for variety, live tele-
reer achievement award for how they incorporated vision or reality competition FILE - In this March, 20, 2018, file photo, renowned costume de-
at next year's Costume De- African culture. shows. Films created for signer Ruth Carter, who has designed for films including "Roots"
signers Guild Awards. Her designs for 1993's "Mal- television and streaming and "Black Panther," introduces a new retrospective fashion ex-
The guild announced colm X" and 1998's "Amis- services will also now be eli- hibition, at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh.
Tuesday that the two-time tad" earned her Oscar gible for recognition.q Associated Press