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Susan interviewed her Wall Street 2 and The Greatest co-star Carey Mulligan for the April issue of Interview magazine. Read an excerpt of the interview below:
Carey Mulligan By Susan Sarandon
Since her star-making performance in director Lone Scherfig’s An Education last fall, Carey Mulligan’s meteoric rise has itself become a cinematic affair—a quick-cutting whirlwind of awards shows, paparazzi, short hair, and self-effacing British charm. The 24-year-old Mulligan’s portrayal of a precocious but naïve schoolgirl whose hunger for experience leads her to become romantically involved with an older man (played brilliantly by Peter Sarsgaard) earned her an Oscar nomination. But Mulligan’s impressive work in An Education isn’t the only reason why many are finding great solace in her emergence as one of the most important young actresses working today. It’s what her success represents: the triumph of talent, acelebration of difference, and a small victory for a young woman who sounds believable when she says she’s in it for the roles and not the acclaim. “Carey stood out immediately,” Scherfig says. “Not because she reminded me of anyone—more perhaps because she didn’t.” “She has this great indefinable quality,” says Jim Sheridan, who directed Mulligan in his most recent film, Brothers. “Yet you feel like you immediately know who she is.” “In the British tradition, she holds a lot more in than an American actress,” offers Oliver Stone, who cast Mulligan as Winnie Gekko, the estranged daughter of Michael Douglas’s Gordon Gekko, in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, due out in September. “There’s a British reticence to Carey, a kind of apartness that, in my mind, characterizes Winnie Gekko, who has been alienated by life, family, the betrayal of her father, the death of her older brother, and the madness of her mother,” says Stone. “She wasn’t supposed to be typically American in her reactions to her environment. To the contrary—she was supposed to be rather terrified at the prospect of family.”
Hollywood News: How did the script come to you and what attracted you to this role?
Mulligan: The script came to me through my agent. It was the normal audition process. I think part of the attraction was that she is somewhat lighter. I think she kind of defers her grief to them because she couldn’t possibly feel as much as they do. There is sort of a generosity in that. I think she is trying to find a security and a base, and she is trying to be attached to him by being with them. I like the idea of working with a small company of actors, and with those actors especially. It kind of feels like theater. Susan [Sarandon] and Pierce [Brosnan] were a huge draw because I didn’t know Shana [Feste]. The minute we met and started working together, I just loved her.
Hollywood News: How does it differ working with female directors compared to working with a male director on Wall Street 2?
Mulligan: Oliver! It is different, but I can’t say if it is a female thing, a male thing, or just a barrel of individuals. With Lone [Scherfig] on An Education, she has a brilliant bluntness where there is no reward or punishment. If you are good, you are good. If you are bad, you are bad and she doesn’t favor you. She is very even. She really was dedicated to telling the story in the best way possible and has no ego at all. I loved her. She had an outsider’s perspective in that she is Danish, so she could view England in a way we wouldn’t. With Shana, it is her material and she was so passionate about it. She got it made. She trusted us with these parts, and it felt like a family environment because we were thrust together so fast and we had very little time. Susan kind of became the mother of all of us. Shana worked her ass off and it was insane. She was incredible.
– Read the full interview with Carey (no other mentions of Susan though) at hollywoodnews.com
Who’s the Greatest? Susan Sarandon may be, at least according to co-star and Oscar-nominated actress Carey Mulligan, who says she was “lucky” to have worked with the veteran performer, whom she dubbed a “machine”.
Their film The Greatest, which also stars Pierce Brosnan of James Bond fame, is set to open in New York and Los Angeles on April 2.
“The subject matter was so harsh sometimes and sad and a lot of people have to, I sometimes have to go into a bit of a dark hole when I’m dealing with that kind of stuff and she (Sarandon) can just switch it on and off like that,” Mulligan told On The Red Carpet’s Rachel Smith at the recent Los Angeles premiere of the film. “She’s like a machine. She’s incredible.”
The movie follows a family’s tumultuous journey after their older son is killed in a car crash. Mulligan plays a woman who shows up on their doorstep after his death, informing them she is pregnant with his child. the family takes her in reluctantly and her presence then both distances and bonds the family.
“Every morning I had to remind myself to not be intimidated but at the end of the day when you’re directing these incredible actors, it just makes you look really good as a director,” director Shana Feste said. “I was just like, ‘I’m going to look really good at the end of this’, because they are absolutely brilliant.”
Brosnan said his participation in the movie as both an actor and producer was a no-brainer due to Feste’s delivery of a “beautiful script on a very hard topic” along with an “impeccable” cast.
An award winning drama representing Shana Feste’s debut as writer/director, “THE GREATEST” stars Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon as Allen and Grace Brewer, a grief—stricken couple whose family has been pushed to the breaking point by the death of their older son, Bennett, in a car crash. When a young woman, Rose, (Carey Mulligan) shows up a few months later announcing that she is pregnant with Bennett’s child, the Brewer’s are forced to take her in. At first, Rose’s presence threatens to tear the family even further apart but, eventually, her interaction with each of the Brewers proves to be the very thing that brings them back together.
Genre: Drama Official Site:www.thegreatestthemovie.com Director: Shana Feste Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Carey Mulligan
Shana Feste’s “The Greatest,” starring Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, and Carey Mulligan, will be released theatrically by Paladin, the company’s President and CEO Mark Urman said Friday. Plans are for a late March initial release, then followed by an early April expansion. National Entertainment Media will handle all post-theatrical rights.
Written and directed by Feste, in her feature directorial debut, “The Greatest” tells the story of Allen and Grace Brewer, a grief-stricken couple whose family has been pushed to the breaking point by the death of their older son, Bennett, in a car crash. When a young woman, Rose, shows up a few months later announcing that she is pregnant with Bennett’s child, the Brewer’s are forced to take her in. At first, Rose’s presence threatens to tear the family even further apart but, eventually, her interaction with each of the Brewers proves to be the very thing that brings them back together.
“We believe that Paladin and NEM, our innovative all media distribution team, will do a terrific job getting the film out to the widest possible audience,” said Feste in a statement. “I am thrilled that Mark Urman’s Paladin and NEM are releasing my first feature as they have demonstrated the sort of passion and commitment to the movie that makes a filmmaker feel in safe hands.”
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