How Carey Mulligan Memorizes Lines + Prepares for a Role Like ‘Promising Young Woman’

Carey Mulligan has once again filed one of the year’s most memorable and breathtaking performances, this time as the lead heroine in Emerald Fennell’s #PromisingYoungWoman. The Focus Features release-which follows Cassandra (Mulligan), a woman who in the aftermath of a friend’s assault seeks revenge-is now nominated for five Academy Awards, including best actress for Mulligan, best picture, and historically, best original screenplay and best director for Fennell. In this exclusive sit-down for Backstage members, Mulligan joined managing editor Benjamin Lindsay for a craft-and-career deep-dive on her roots as a performer, how she builds a character, her advice for others in the field, and more.
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[@aleksandrasobi6853]

Great interview! This movie is one of these when you can't get up during the end titles. Fantastic film! And Carey is an amazing Actress! She is enormous talented. Thank You for these interview.

[@tiffsaver]

I wish she would have talked about how she studies to get her American accent down so eerily PERFECT.

[@Mariia.Cascales]

thank you so much for uploading this!

[@MKhan-uv5kt]

Congrats!!!! What a movie!!!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@Lushy260]

Great interview

[@_roseanevieira]

I Luv that movie 🌟

[@jke387]

I love this!

[@jke387]

Due to life circumstances, a lot of my acting is instinct/self taught, also. I do the same to memorize lines. I don't know if I was being a complete dork doing that. I was bullied by second team on a Dick Show where we need to memorize our lines on our sides once we land on set, and they'd make fun of me for writing them down.