Hollywood-Asia: Interview with Young Promising Woman star Carey Mulligan
AKIPRESS.COM - A member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Serge Rakhlin exclusively for the Hollywood - Asia project of AKIpress and Los Angeles film festival executive Asel Sherniyazova talked to actress Carey Mulligan starring in Young Promising Woman.
Q: Promising Young Woman is a really intriguing film because it walks this fine line between being this incredibly introspective drama but has these comedic release valves throughout it. Please talk about the tone of the film for you, as a title character.
- I think what makes comedy so brilliant and witnessing the other actors doing it is just such a treat, is that it only works if you’re really truthful. That’s what was the brilliance of watching Jennifer Coolidge is that when Jenna first talking about her job at the dinner table it’s so funny because she absolutely is inhabiting that and it completely feels so real but it’s utterly absurd.
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Promising Young Woman.
Promising Young Woman is a revenge thriller romantic comedy a melding of genres as bold as the film itself. Written and directed by Emerald Fennell, the film stars Carey Mulligan as a woman haunted by a traumatic event in her past. As a result, she dedicates her life to seeking revenge on predatory men.
One of the last movies I saw in theaters was this film s premiere at Sundance. After it ended, I struck up a conversation with the stranger sitting next me (in the glory days of when we could do that) and he said, “I will make sure my son sees this.” It was then that I realized who this film was for; by weaponizing, instead of romanticizing, the idea of the nice guy,