Carey Mulligan: 'I was almost arrested while filming Drive'

Carey Mulligan has confessed that she and Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn were nearly arrested while shooting the film.

In an interview with New York Mag, the Shame star recalled running into trouble with police while driving, after she consumed too many energy drinks before getting behind the wheel.

"I used to drive [Nicolas] to and from work when we were doing the movie - I didn't work very much on Drive, I just came into work and stared at Ryan Gosling occasionally - and one day we shot until two in the morning. Nicolas made a film about driving, but he cannot drive," Mulligan revealed.

"I'd never had Red Bull before, and I had, like, six of them, and I was like, 'This is the best thing, ever!' We got in my white Prius, and we were driving out of downtown Los Angeles, back to where he was living with his family, and I was trying to do the navigational thing while he was sitting next to me - and I'm so wired on Red Bull that I think my head's going to burst, so I'm, like, veering around in the road.

"There's no one around, but suddenly there are flashing lights and I get pulled over."

However, Mulligan said that the story had a happy ending and they avoided being taken into custody, adding: "I'm sitting there in my pink fluffy slippers, Nic's sitting there in his Puma tracksuit looking like a drug addict, and the policeman's like, 'What are you doing?' And I say, 'I'm not drunk - I just had seventeen Red Bulls!' And Nic's like, 'We're making a mooovie.'

"We looked ridiculous. Thank God, he didn't want to do the paperwork and he let us go."

Mulligan previously revealed that she and Winding Refn moved in together throughout the duration of production on Drive.

Watch the trailer for Drive below: