Carey Mulligan "couldn`t stop crying" after filming an attempted suicide
The British actress plays the troubled younger sister of a sex addict portrayed by Michael Fassbender in the film and although she originally wasn`t affected by the controversial scene, in which her character tries to slash her wrists, she admitted she was "devastated" at how hopeless her character felt.
She told MakingOf.com: "I was sitting there and this fake blood was pumping out of my arms and I was in this completely hopeless state with a kitchen knife next to me. And it was horrible, it was really horrible and I wasn`t expecting it, it was a complete surprise, and I felt awful. It sounds so pretentious, but it just made me feel horrible. I felt devastated and I felt so sad. And I`m fine. I`m great and well adjusted and everything`s cool, but just the idea of being that helpless and that lonely, it was just really sad. I got into the taxi at the end of the day and I couldn`t stop crying."
Carey also explained she was initially against doing a fully frontal nude scene but came to understand it was necessary for the role.
She said: "I`ve never, never been naked in a film before; I`ve been topless once or twice, but always in sort of very innocent ways. And I`ve always been sort of staunchly feminist about it, I`ve never relished the idea of doing it, and never if it was inappropriate or gratuitous in any way. But I just felt it was absolutely right; that`s exactly who she was. She wanted to be seen, she`s an exhibitionist and she`s provocative."
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