Carey Mulligan: ‘An Education’ controversy?

Buzzed-about star on reactions to her film, in which a 16-year-old schoolgirl falls for a man in his early 30s
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25 Responses to “Carey Mulligan: ‘An Education’ controversy?”

  1. 1voceunica Says:

    @chokow37 yes, but so much prettier, more beautiful as a blond. One can hardly recognize her as a brunette/redhead.

  2. 1voceunica Says:

    @bigbuttpretzel oh–the guy? He lied to her. He was a habitual cheater. Maybe you should check out the film and “educate” yourself.

  3. ekocentric Says:

    @ekocentric I’m referring to the school principal when I mentioned an “old bat.” I felt a lot better about this movie when I saw all of the deleted parts. Including the ending where Jenny is an Oxford student riding her bike with a young man. David comes driving up looking like a hot mess begging her to come back to him. And to tell her that he had volunteered to serve time in prison for over 190 offenses and thefts!! She turned him down flat and said: “I’m at Oxford now David.” And walked off.

  4. ekocentric Says:

    I was stationed at Lakenheath Royal Air Force base in east Anglia (It’s an American base by the way) a little over 3 decades ago and I felt very sad for poor little Jenny in the movie. Until I remembered that a 16 year old in the early 60′s in another country would not have been as “out there” by herself as someone (like myself) here who had been sheltered. She was better equipped to deal with his betrayal than he was. She was the grown up in their relationship.

  5. bigbuttpretzel Says:

    whore

  6. grrrbuddy Says:

    I like that scene where she’s dancing with dominic cooper. it’s where you kind of start to realize there’s more going on than we see. it’s just really cool.

  7. ekocentric Says:

    Jenny should have introduced this old bat to David. He would have done her the same way…or would have gone after her grand daughter. lol

  8. HaveASpoonOfMagic Says:

    Everybody is saying “she seems so much older in real life compared to An education”… Does anyone get that in the film she played a 16 year old and in real life she’s 24. In movies if someone is playing a character younger than themselves they have to act younger, plus the make-up they would have used would have contributed to the physical side of things, plus since the movie she got her hair cut, which did make her appear younger. She’s a great actress who can pretend to be any age!!

  9. aragorn1780 Says:

    agreeing with just about everybody on this feed, Carey does seem a lot older now than she did in the movie, lolz

  10. GabriellaNewYork Says:

    i so much liked her in that film!!!she is so talented!!i fell in love with her haircut too!:):)

  11. impamiizgraa Says:

    She seems amazing. And Emma Thompson is a goddess! Gotta see this film

  12. maddayg Says:

    @ceciliaaSN I literally said she has grown up SO much, and right as I was about to read your comment.

    She is such a woman now! Her voice is so much more mature.

  13. blubarton Says:

    Great interviewer

  14. wadadlibabe Says:

    she’s really coming up finally, but I can’t join in on the “pretty” bandwagon, I think she looks really old for her age but she’s uber talented!

  15. mysticaldanger92 Says:

    omg i did too! and when everyone was saying how she came from nowhere i was like i heard of her before all this big oscar stuff!

  16. Elizalili Says:

    aaaw! Great actress! Dominic Cooper and her have so much chemistery there! Hope there will be an education 2 with the both of them or that they’ll play together in some other films;-)

  17. coreyconway Says:

    I’m in love with her!

  18. Lizthewiz1 Says:

    i love her so much!

  19. OuiJeSuisBien Says:

    I only watched the movie because it was sally sparrow :)

    It’s a really great movie though!!!

  20. Lovenotwar29 Says:

    When I saw her at the Oscars, I went: IT’S SALLY SPARROW!! :)

  21. rlegear19 Says:

    Congrats to Carey on winning the Bafta for best actress……. she is building momentum for the Oscar.

  22. chokow37 Says:

    SHE is so pretty

  23. mlgroggins Says:

    Wait till you see her in “The Greatest” with Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon. Brilliant!!

  24. ceciliaaSN Says:

    she’s grown up so much since pride and prejudice

  25. joliecide Says:

    yup, Sally Sparrow’s the breakout star of 2009– there’s already talk of an Oscar for 2010

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