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Carey Mulligan: 'I was rejected from every drama school'
Published Tuesday, Jan 17 2012, 23:56 GMT | By Jennifer Still | 3 comments
Carey Mulligan has confessed that she was rejected from every drama school for which she auditioned.
The Shame actress revealed in an interview with The New York Times' Arts & Leisure Weekend that she chose to apply to drama schools in lieu of university as her parents did not allow her to attend theatre school as a child.
"I went to boarding school when I was 14. I was a drama geek; I never fell into acting. I was obsessed with acting from a really young age. I just wanted to be in musicals and I wore a Les Misérables T-shirt for, like, four years, well into my teens," Mulligan recalled.
"[Applying to drama schools] was the most rebellious thing I've ever done. I applied to drama school instead of university and got rejected from every one. And Drama Centre London told me to be a children's TV show presenter."
Mulligan went on to admit that her choice of monologues during her auditions may have been partly to blame for the negative outcome, adding: "I did Psychosis 448, a monologue about someone who is about to commit suicide, as my audition speech. So there's this incredibly well-adjusted, happy person coming from boarding school and I'm miming slitting my wrists on stage.
"They were like, 'Go home! Or at least experience something other than boarding school'. So that's what I did."
Mulligan recently said that she still experiences days where she feels like a "terrible" actor and is unable to get into character.
> Carey Mulligan: 'Close camera shots completely throw me'
Watch Carey Mulligan talking about her forthcoming role in The Great Gatsby with Digital Spy below:
The Shame actress revealed in an interview with The New York Times' Arts & Leisure Weekend that she chose to apply to drama schools in lieu of university as her parents did not allow her to attend theatre school as a child.
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"I went to boarding school when I was 14. I was a drama geek; I never fell into acting. I was obsessed with acting from a really young age. I just wanted to be in musicals and I wore a Les Misérables T-shirt for, like, four years, well into my teens," Mulligan recalled.
"[Applying to drama schools] was the most rebellious thing I've ever done. I applied to drama school instead of university and got rejected from every one. And Drama Centre London told me to be a children's TV show presenter."
Mulligan went on to admit that her choice of monologues during her auditions may have been partly to blame for the negative outcome, adding: "I did Psychosis 448, a monologue about someone who is about to commit suicide, as my audition speech. So there's this incredibly well-adjusted, happy person coming from boarding school and I'm miming slitting my wrists on stage.
"They were like, 'Go home! Or at least experience something other than boarding school'. So that's what I did."
Mulligan recently said that she still experiences days where she feels like a "terrible" actor and is unable to get into character.
> Carey Mulligan: 'Close camera shots completely throw me'
Watch Carey Mulligan talking about her forthcoming role in The Great Gatsby with Digital Spy below:
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