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Well… I kind of didn’t expect this. Carey Mulligan covers the May issue of Vogue to promote Far From the Madding Crowd, her Broadway turn in Skylight, and this awards-season hopeful Suffragette. And with all that going on, it’s still sort of boring. Boring by design – Carey Mulligan is a very quiet, self-contained person and she’s not doing any of this for fame or fortune. She’s a “real actress.” Which is great, although Real Actresses don’t always make for the most interesting Vogue subjects. Vogue paired her – for the photoshoot – with her Madding Crowd costar Matthias Schoenaerts. He doesn’t liven it up that much. You can read the Vogue piece here, and here are some highlights:

Doing a Broadway show: “I’ve always felt better in New York, doing theater. I think because there’s no one I know in the audience—or I can believe that more comfortably than I can in London.”

She doesn’t want to be “known”: “I have always felt that the less people know about me, the better. The more similar you look job to job, the more they relate to you from your previous roles. That’s why I’ve done loads of really stupid things to my hair in the past to try to not look the same.”

She admires Marion Cotillard most of all: “She’s consistently incredible. She does really cool films and doesn’t engage with the stupid side of it. And she’s private—I don’t know anything about her, and I quite like that.”

Her goal as an actress: “Given the choice, I’d rather not play accessories. And waiting for the non-girlfriend/wife thing usually takes a decent amount of time.”

[From Vogue]

Carey is also asked about her husband Marcus Mumford and what their marriage is like and she managed to say some words that barely mean anything and something about “splitting time” and she confirms that Marcus is staying with her in NYC while she’s on Broadway. Basically, she could teach a class in “answering personal questions without revealing anything personal at all.” I love what she says about not “playing accessories” and she even admits that holding out for the great parts is sometimes tough, and that means not working for months at a time.

Photos courtesy of Mikael Jansson/VOGUE.
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