She is tipped to walk away with her first Oscar but Carey Mulligan says nothing gets in the way of bathtime with the kids.
The 35-year-old star, who plays avenging medical student Cassie in Promising Young Woman, is mum to Evelyn, five, and Wilfred, three, with Mumford & Sons frontman Marcus Mumford , 34.
She says: “I feel very strongly about my job and I love my job and it’s the best job in the world, but also, it is a job.
“It can’t be more important than when I have to get home and have to do bathtime. Someone said the other day, ‘Did you bring Cassie home with you?’
"And I was like, ‘The nails I brought home, the hair extensions I brought home, but everything else, you can’t bring that into a house with two kids. You’ve got to leave all of that stuff at work. So I think it’s a system that works for me for now.”
This is Carey’s second Oscar nomination. Her first was for An Education in 2009.
Of that first experience, she says: “I was just so overwhelmed by the whole thing. I just remember being in a room with Sandra Bullock and being, ‘This is the greatest moment of my life’.”
But there is one woman who has been driving her recent work – former Oscar winner Nicole Kidman , 53.
“She was actually somewhat of an inspiration for us for Promising Young Woman,” says Carey.
“She’s just extraordinary. She’s sort of simultaneously charming, and enticing, and terrifying. I think it’s just a masterclass.”
May the lessons pay off Sunday night.
