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Carey Mulligan has detailed just how convincing her makeup was in Maestro for scenes that required her to look older.
The Saltburn star is a guest on Friday’s edition of The Graham Norton Show alongside her co-star and director Bradley Cooper.
Speaking to the host about the Leonard Bernstein biopic, which is now streaming on Netflix, Brad explained: “I had to age from 24 to 67 during the film. The makeup was amazing.
“It was also interesting that on young Lenny filming days I was popping all over the set and when I was the older Lenny, we had much slower days.”
Carey then revealed that during filming she fell “quite ill”, and was visited by a medic on set.
“When I told him I was 12 weeks pregnant he was not at all convinced,” she recalled. “I then realised I was still made up to look 57 years old.
“I couldn’t wait to tell the makeup artists how good they were.”
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Carey also recalled her “dramatic” first meeting with Bradley, when he came to visit her behind the scenes of a play she was in.
“During the show a bit of set hit me on the head, I carried on but when it was over, I started crying and thought I was a goner,” she admitted.
“I was sobbing on the floor when Bradley turned up and, realising I wasn’t OK, he took me to hospital. You can imagine how delighted the nurse was!”
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Maestro received mostly positive reviews upon its release last month, and has since scooped an impressive seven Oscar nominations, including acting nods for both its leads and – perhaps unsurprisingly given Carey’s story – recognition in the Best Makeup and Hairstyling category.
In the lead-up to the film’s release, there was some controversy over a prosthetic nose worn by Bradley, which some critics felt played into anti-Semitic tropes.
The Graham Norton Show airs on Friday night at 10.50pm on BBC One.