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Carey Mulligan is kidding herself if she thinks looks aren’t important in cinema Some actresses make more plausible femmes fatales than others – that's not sexism, it's chemistry In Promising Young Woman, Carey Mulligan plays against type Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features To while away the evenings, my son has been working his way through his father’s classic Hollywood movie collection. Watching High Noon together, we marvelled at the great beauty on screen. Yes, Grace Kelly is lovely. When the Princess of Monaco walks into a room, all heaven breaks loose. But the actor whose looks the boy and I couldn’t stop drinking in was Kelly’s co-star Gary Cooper. With his Stradivarius cheekbones, Coop is arguably the most handsome leading man of all time, but he wore that attraction like a summer sweater tossed casually over one shoulder as the night drew in. A nonchalance which only made him more desirable.
âFinding out about Edith Pretty was a real eye-opener,â Carey Mulligan tells British Vogue of learning about the Suffolk landowner and archeologist Basil Brown, who together were responsible for one of the most important archeological discoveries of all time, the 1939 Anglo-Saxon ship burial excavation at Sutton Hoo. Mulligan devoured books about Pretty ahead of playing her in new Netflix film The Dig. âReading her biography, I was just so in awe of her. She was so extraordinary. She served as a volunteer nurse in the First World War, and she travelled to Egypt and America, and lived in Paris for six months on her own. This was kind of revolutionary stuff for a woman in the time that she grew up in. I loved the idea of somebody with that capacity for learning, study and adventure.â
Suffragette (M, 106mins) Directed by Sarah Gavron ★★★★ The Glasshouse Laundry is all Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) has ever known. She's devoted 17 of the 24 years of her life so far to that business – and given it her body and soul. Her reputation for being good at collars helped her go far in the East End laundry, but then so did the unwanted attention lavished on her by her boss. But still, despite the steamy, insanitary conditions, leg ulcers, headaches and chest coughs, she's managed to rise up the ranks to become forewoman, has a devoted husband (Ben Whishaw) and a beloved little boy.