Carey Mulligan on 'Shame' Casting: Offered Role Because 'I Was Acquiring a Tattoo'

Carey Mulligan has proven herself becoming an actress. Furthermore to her Oscar nomination for your 2009 film, 'An Education,' she's came out in many considerably acclaimed movies, including 'Drive' and 'Never Let Me Go.' However, if the found who audition for your role of Sissy inside the approaching drama, 'Shame,' she needed a few drastic measures to have the ability to get cast by director Steve McQueen. After speaking with McQueen about her feelings toward the role, and the way it in contrast for the character of Nina she carried out inside the stage production, 'The Seagull,' Mulligan went a measure further. I told [Steve] that I'd been thinking about getting this seagull tattoo in my wrist just like a indication, because of there being this brilliant factor Nina does: She's stood a child using this author and she's lost the newborn and she's were living in abject poverty she's fraught but she's got this clearness, and he or she states, 'I know because it is not about fame or glory or everything Used to do formerly imagine. It's an opportunity to endure, to cope with your mix and also the belief. I really will have belief, then when I consider my vocation, I'm not frightened of existence.' ... Once I told him relating to this little passage, he got excited and was like, ­'Yeeeah!' and i'm like, 'I'll get yourself a tattoo!' and he's like, 'Great!' I obtained a telephone call a couple of several hours later he was offering me the job but it absolutely was only because I told him I used to be acquiring a tattoo. [Laughs] I obtained the tattoo the following morning. The lesson here: Don't underestimate the drastic measures some stars goes to acquire a role they require. Mulligan also spoke to NY Magazine in regards to the time her and 'Drive' director Nicolas Winding Refn almost got arrested. While driving Refn for the set, the actress was stopped -- after eating and enjoying lots of Red-colored-colored Bull the first time ever. According to Mulligan, she told the officer "I'm not drunk I merely had 17 Red-colored-colored Bulls!" Fortunately, the cop permit them to go. Browse the whole Carey Mulligan interview over on NY's website. 'Shame' opens this Frida. [via NY Magazine] [Photo: AXELLE/BAUER-GRIFFIN.COM] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook