Not So Heartbroken Then, Eh Carey?!?!

Bar steward, two for the road please…

Well, for  An Education star Carey Mulligan, it seemed like only yesterday her and Wall Street 2‘s costar Shia Labeouf were celebrating one year together.

After the recent demise of that relationship and Carey’s admission that maybe it was time to go back to the U.K, up popped pictures on the 19th of her leaving her fine (and I mean fine) hotel, The Best Western, with none other than the believed to be up and comer, actor Tom Sturridge (Pirate Radio’s own Young Carl). Curious?

Cut to: Tuesday the 26th, Chateau Marmont Hotel – Carey Mulligan and Tom Sturridge trying to hide in the back of an exiting taxi, after the Annual Hollywood Awards Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel at which Mulligan was in attendance Tuesday night.

The two actors met up at Chateau Marmont for a bit of a rendezvous, um, apparently… Not much is known about the conversation but maybe…just maybe…the two are ‘friends’ trying to console the voids left in their hearts by this crazy little thing called love.

Now for the sigh of relief… Robert Pattinson must be relieved in knowing that his love interest, Kristen Stewart is no longer rumored to be romantically tied with his blood brother Sturridge and Stewart’s co star in a yet to be completed film adaption of Kerouac novel, “On the Road” thanks to drinks with Ms. Mulligan.

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Knightley and Mulligan Join Forces to Never Let Me Go!

The trailer for an upcoming Brit film called Never Let Me Go was recently released and it looks, to say the least, very intriguing.

Two of our most cherished Brit actresses, Keira Knightley (The Duchess) and Carey Mulligan (An Education), will share the silver screen in the dramatic thriller. The cast also features English actors Andrew Garfield, Domhnall Gleeson, and Sally Hawkins. Garfield, along with Mulligan, was featured on the telly series Doctor Who; Gleeson is to play Bill Weaseley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; and Sally Hawkins previously worked with Mulligan in An Education. Hawkins also played the lead character of Poppy in the successful independent film Happy-Go-Lucky (one of my personal favorites.)

Never Let Me Go is based on an award-winning novel of the same name that was written by Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro. The movie was primarily filmed in the countryside of Norfolk County, England and tells the story of three friends, Kathy (Mulligan), Ruth (Knightley), and Tommy (Garfield), who reunite years after attending a strange English boarding school together and proceed to uncover the dark mysteries of their shared past. The film is slated to be released at the end of 2010 and will be distributed in the US by Fox Searchlight Pictures.

I am curious to see just how interested American audiences will be in this very British artistic-looking sci-fi/drama/thriller film… only time will tell…

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Educating Carey…

I love British born starlet, Carey Mulligan, her career has gone into warp drive since the release of An Education.

Following her Oscars nomination for Best Actress last month, Carey has walked on red carpet after red carpet, leading to a whirlwind of awards shows and paparazzi flash bulbs.

Her face has graced cover upon cover, including this month’s Interview magazine, which incidentally in my book is one of the coolest you can get!

The actress is currently lined up to star as cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, to be directed by John Madden, with a planned release sometime in 2012.

But although Carey’s portrayal of naïve schoolgirl Jenny Mellor in An Education was nothing short of sensational, it doesn’t even match up to the fantastic performance she gave playing Sally Sparrow in BBC’s Doctor Who. You’ve got to see it; every self-respecting Carey Mulligan fan (like myself) has to check out Blink…

So, I say more Sally Sparrow please Carey my dear… Because I’d pay top dollar to see you reprise that role again!

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