When #CareyMulligan was preparing for her role in #Beef, she had some feedback about the insults. The second season of the #Netflix anthology series, which creator #LeeSungJin describes as part Sopranos, part Ingmar Bergman, traffics in a dirty, delicious fight between #OscarIsaac’s country club manager Josh and his wife, Lindsay, played by Mulligan. But Mulligan was worried that some of the obscenities felt too American. “I wrote Sonny [Lee] a list of really awful British swear words — just all the shit things that we say to each other,” she says. “I was like, ‘I should definitely call someone a c-nt.’ ”⁠ ⁠ The Beef gig came shortly after Mulligan wrapped promotion for Bradley Cooper’s #Maestro. At that point, she’d done nearly everything a “Serious Actress” could do: British period pieces. Folksy Coen brothers indies. Important stories about the origins of the suffragette and #MeToo movements. She had three Oscar nominations. But she’d never done a true comedy, and her oeuvre wasn’t ...