‘Promising Young Woman’: How Director Emerald Fennell & Carey Mulligan Concealed a Timely Truth Bomb Amid ’90s Nostalgia

Clayton Davis Carey Mulligan’s performance in Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” has been beloved by critics and audiences alike since it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020. She has been considered one of the top contenders in the best actress race, which is among the most competitive of all-time, with no shortage of talent in the running.

Clayton Davis Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” reinvents the revenge thriller, giving the cinematic treatment for woman reclaiming their power. On page 20, Cassandra (played exquisitely by Carey Mulligan) is approached by a former college classmate Ryan (played by the charismatically brilliant Bo Burnham).

Carey Mulligan has been earning rave reviews for her performance as a woman seeking revenge against sexual predators in “Promising Young Woman”, but one film critic’s take had her calling out Variety for a “tone-deaf” review — though its author disagrees.

Carey Mulligan understands the importance of how women are discussed in the media. Her gripping new film,, has received mostly positive reviews from the critics, but Mulligan recently decided to call out a review from , which suggested that producer Margot Robbie might have been a better fit for Mulligan's part as Cassie. «I felt it was, you know, it was a surface read, it was a sort of criticism or an appraisal of my looks as opposed to my performance,» Mulligan tells ET's Matt Cohen.

Palm Springs International Film Awards.The organization announced on Wednesday that the 38-year-old actor will receive this year's Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor. «Riz Ahmed delivers one of the most complex and moving on-screen performances of the year,» Festival Chairman Harold Matzner said in a statement. «In Sound of Metal, the film tells the emotional journey of Ruben, a musician who learns he is losing his hearing and must deal with this new reality.

Variety for their “sexist” review of her new film Promising Young Woman.In a new interview with Zendaya for the publication’s Actors on Actors series, Mulligan addressed Variety‘s apology after she called out the language of the review in a New York Times profile last year.“It made me concerned that in such a big publication, an actress’ appearance could be criticised and that could be accepted as completely reasonable criticism,” Mulligan told Zendaya.“It stuck with me, because I think it’s

Variety‘s “Actors On Actors” issue is here and it features the year’s brightest stars.

Carey Mulligan is reacting to a review.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan is set to star in Fingernails, the English-language feature film debut for Greek filmmaker Christos Nikou, whose current movie Apples premiered at the 2020 Venice Film Festival and is Greece’s submission in the International Feature Oscar race. The new pic reteams Nikou and Dirty Films and partners Cate Blanchett, Coco Francini and Andrew Upton, all executive producers on Apples.

Kate Aurthur editorIn a profile in the New York Times in December, Carey Mulligan was asked about the initial reactions to her movie “Promising Young Woman” during its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January of last year. After Mulligan “winced” at the question, she answered.“I read the Variety review, because I’m a weak person,’” she told the Times.

Carey Mulligan (“Promising Young Woman”) and Zendaya (“Malcolm & Marie”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here. In “Promising Young Woman,” Carey Mulligan’s Cassie has been knocked off track by the rape of her best friend, Nina.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorA key scene in Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” has audiences falling in love with Paris Hilton’s underrated 2006 single, “Stars are Blind.” The film’s Stars Carey Mulligan and Bo Burnham dance to the song affectionately while in a local pharmacy. The tango soundtracks the two characters’ budding relationship, before — spoiler alert — it all goes south.Released on Warner Bros.

The idea for Emerald Fennell’s debut movie Promising Young Woman came to her in a single image: while a seemingly drunk woman is being bothered by a man, she turns the tables by suddenly sitting up, stone-cold sober, and asking, “What are you doing?” This happens quite a few times in her film, which sees college dropout Cassie (Carey Mulligan) taking revenge on the kind of men that sexually abused her best friend in college, leading to her suicide.

Carey Mulligan's performance in  was more than promising.

Carey Mulligan can tick one big life goal off her bucket list, thanks to her new movie “Promising Young Woman”.

Carey Mulligan and her husband Marcus Mumford were reported to have purchased a £2million 16th-century farmhouse in Devon back in 2013.

Weaponizing feminine wiles for acts of revenge takes the phrase "power dressing" to a new level in Promising Young Woman. Carey Mulligan's vigilante avenger Cassie is a study in contrasts, where costumes serve as a facade, armor and a symbol of seduction.

Emerald Fennell knows the ending of will be polarizing. The film as a whole — a revenge movie about a rape culture vigilante — is primed for discourse, but it's the final act that will be the most talked about.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterAfter reading the script for Emerald Fennell’s revenge thriller “Promising Young Woman,” costume designer Nancy Steiner pictured a leading lady who was “disheveled” or in gentler terms, “less-than put together.”After all, Cassie — the film’s main character portrayed by Carey Mulligan — is depressed.

If there are any milestones worth noting this week, it’s that the Focus Features thriller Promising Young Woman crossed the $3 million in its fourth week in theaters. This weekend the Emerald Fennell-directed pic starring Carey Mulligan played in 1,333 theaters and added an estimated $430K to its box office till this weekend and is on track to earn $518K for the four-day Martin Luther King Jr.