We have been blessed with yet another absolutely gorgeous new photoshoot for Vogue Australia. Carey is featured on the cover of this month’s issue, which is all about strength, solidarity and supporting one another. In this regard, Australian actress Margot Robbie, who produced the film with her company LuckyChap Entertainment, was asked to interview Carey about what makes her performance in Promising Young Woman, and this project, so groundbreaking. The interview (which was done over the phone – stay at home!) is really interesting, and you should absolutely check it out. Read the excerpt below, but head over to the original article to read it in its entirety.




[…] MR: “What is the best piece of direction you’ve ever been given?”
CM: “Probably Paul Dano on Wildlife when I was really freaking out. In the scene I take my son to dinner with this man I’m having an affair with, then get really drunk and confused about what I’ve been doing and end up kissing this guy in front of my son. It’s a complete car crash. I was doing it and felt like it was the worst acting I’ve ever done in my life. Paul was like: ‘Yeah, you feel like that, she feels like that. Just do the worst version of this. Make it absolutely appalling and that will probably be somewhere where we need to be.’”
MR: “That is so clever. And then when you watched the scene in the movie were you happy with it?”
CM: “Yeah, but you’re never like: ‘Woohoo. Ten points.’ And then I had a really good piece from Steve McQueen on Shame. We were doing a scene where I sing New York, New York in a bar with Michael Fassbender and I was terrified. I did my take and he was like: ‘Yeah, we got it’, but then: ‘Okay, so now just sing something else. We can’t have a song that’s written because we won’t be able to get the rights for it, so make something up.’ I remember walking into a toilet and humming random things that sounded like jazz song under my breath, then came out and sang something about a dying rose.”
[…] MR: “Name a fellow actor who has impressed you, who has really blown you away in a scene.”
CM: “Oscar Isaac, when we were doing Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen brothers’ film. He was just on another level. It’s a really common thing for me, when it gets to my line and I’m like: ‘Oh fuck, sorry. Sorry you were just so good I got so distracted.’ All the time I feel that this happens.”