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- **Posted:** 2026-04-16T13:01:37.000+00:00
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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.’ ”⁠
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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 reflective of her off-camera personality. Her friend and collaborator Emerald Fennell describes her as “naughty”; Beef offered her a chance to show that side to the world.⁠
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“I was delighted that she punches someone in the face,” she says over breakfast at the Hotel Bel-Air, where she’s staying but not really sleeping (she lives outside London and jet lag had her up most of the night scrolling photos of the three children she shares with musician Marcus Mumford). When Mulligan learned about an episode five turn that called for her character to kill a coyote in cold blood, she was completely hooked. “I called my agent immediately and was like, ‘There’s this fucking bit with a coyote, I’ve got to do it.’ ”⁠
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