“Promised Young” star Carey Mulligan responded to an apology from Variety for her criticism of her new film, which suggested that the London-born actress was not attractive enough for her role.
In January last year, the entertainment channel published its review of the revenge thriller #MeToo after its debut at the Sundance Film Festival. Criticism by critic Dennis Harvey mainly praised the black comedy, but it also drew attention to Mulligan’s cast.
“Mulligan, an excellent actress, seems like a bit of a strange choice, as this apparent multifaceted femme fatale – Margot Robbie is a producer here, and one can (perhaps very easily) imagine that the role could have been meant for her, “Harvey wrote.
“Considering that, with this star, Cassie uses her bait equipment as a bad drag; even her long blond hair looks like a farce. The monotonous American accent she offers in her lower voice also seems a little too objective, though it’s not very clear what the quote marks around this performance mean. Still, like everything here, this turn is skillful, fun and challenging, even when the eccentric method obscures the precise message. “
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Mulligan, who has generated buzz about the Oscar for his performance, criticized Variety’s criticism during a recent interview with The New York Times, when asked if she had read about the response to the film.
“I read Variety’s review because I’m a weak person and I didn’t like it,” Mulligan told the Times. “It looked like it was basically saying that I wasn’t hot enough to use that kind of ruse.”
Following his comments, Variety added a note from the editor to Harvey’s initial review.
“Variety sincerely apologizes to Carey Mulligan and regrets the insensitive language and insinuations in our ‘Promising Young Woman’ criticism that downplayed her daring performance.”
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During a conversation with Zendaya on Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, Mulligan responded to the vehicle’s apology.
“I think it’s important that the criticism is constructive. I think it’s important that we’re looking at the right things when it comes to work, and that we’re looking at art, and we’re looking at performance and the way a film is made. And I don’t I think it depends on an actor’s appearance or his personal preference for what an actor looks like or not, what it looked like that article did, “began Mulligan. “Which was disappointing to me, because obviously the film addresses issues around our perceptions and preconceived ideas about people. In the broadest sense, I think there is an element in which we have idealized women on screen for so long that I think we started to lose sight of what women really are. When I worked with Steve McQueen on ‘Shame’, he said, ‘Really, what we’re all doing is holding a mirror. That’s what we do as storytellers.’
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“And I think that if women look at the screen continuously and don’t see each other, that’s not useful for women or anyone, really – we’re not going to tell authentic stories,” she continued. “So I think that when criticizing or kind of lamenting the lack of attractiveness on my part in a character, it was not a personal contempt, it was not something I felt. It did not hurt my ego, but it made me worried that in such a huge publication , the appearance of an actress could be criticized and it could be, you know, it could be accepted as completely reasonable criticism. ”