Carey Mulligan's career is a "waiting game" - because she isn't "in a Marvel movie".
Carey Mulligan
The 'Promising Young Woman' actress admitted it can be difficult for her as she doesn't also producer and exciting scripts don't always "filter down" to her but she's thankful she receives at least one offer for an "unmissable" project every year
Asked if she thinks 'Promising Young Woman' would have been made if it weren't for the #MeToo movement, she said: "It’s hard to know what the real barometer is, because a lot of [female-led] projects are not made. So, in that sense, maybe it would not have been made, because it isn’t a superhero film or something...
"It’s still hard now, and it’s still a waiting game for me, because I’m not in a producing role; I just act, so I wait for the scripts. I’ve been lucky in the last 10 years that once a year something unmissable comes along.
"I don’t see a huge change yet, but I’m not the first person that would get a script necessarily, in terms of not being in a Marvel movie. So things aren’t necessarily always filtering down to me.
"But there’s a feeling that there are more [good roles for women] and there are people being very proactive, like Emerald, like Phoebe Waller-Bridge, like Margot Robbie. Women who are being very deliberate about creating new and exciting things.
The 'Mudbound' star - who has Evelyn, five, and Wilfred, three, with husband Marcus Mumford – also admitted she was worried about taking on the role because it was the first time for a long time she was playing someone without children.
She told The Guardian newspaper: "When I read the 'Promising Young Woman' script, I felt the way that you do when you watch 'Parasite'. Constantly wrongfooted, like: 'Oh my word, what is this?' In a good way.
"I also felt the thing that I always want to feel: that I would be gutted if anyone else played this part. I had to do it, but also I didn’t know how to do it.
"I’d been exclusively playing mums for a bit. I had a teenage son in Wildlife and then I had children in 'Mudbound'. And I had been performing this Dennis Kelly monologue ['Girls and Boys'] in which I had two children.
And then, suddenly, I was a bit like: 'Can you still buy me as pre-kids?' It wasn’t anything I’d massively articulated, but I was like, 'OK, I’m gonna be in that zone again.' There were lots of things about it that I felt like, 'I have no idea how to do this.' "
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